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Old 11-27-2012, 12:48 PM   #28
Marin
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Originally Posted by psneeld View Post
True enough...but how do you feel about auto pilot/altitude hold in aircraft?
For the same reasons I like them on boats, much of the time you don't need them...it's the times you do that they earn their keep.
Kind of a major difference between driving a toy boat around in two dimensions the San Juan and Gulf Islands for a weekend and flying a 777 in three dimensions for 15 hours between Dubai and Seattle, I think......

Keep in mind that I'm not slamming autopilots or think recreational boaters don't need them. We took ours off for reasons other than not wanting one and while we don't miss it at all and in fact very much enjoy hand-steering our boat, if we had an autopilot again we'd use it when we felt like it.
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