When I am getting close to landing on approach, sometimes I want to take over and manually have control of my heading and have the autopilot keep control of the altitute and airspeed, in other aircraft (like the default MS ones) you can disengage anything at anytime (not like I ever fly them, but I tested it out). Is it possible to do this?-Drew Anderson

>Is it possible to do this? No.Martin767 fetishistIt's a lot like life and that's what's appealing

You could leave VNAV on to control your altitude and adjust the heading manually on the autopilot, however hand flying with the vnav engaged is not possible as the autopilot is required to be enabled with VNAV in use.So in a way it is possible.Regards,Dan

The autopilot does not have to be engaged for VNAV. You can fly in VNAV mode using the flight director only.There is no mode which the autopilot can handle that the flight director can not. In fact, the takeoff mode is not available for the autopilot.Regards,Mark

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>In fact, the takeoff mode is not available for the autopilot. On some aircraft it is also an autopilot mode.But Flare and Rollout are autopilot-only modes.Martin767 fetishistIt's a lot like life and that's what's appealing

"On some aircraft it is also an autopilot mode."You're right (B744). I was referring to the 767."But Flare and Rollout are autopilot-only modes."You got me there. Completely forgot about autoland. Thanks for pointing that out, Martin.Regards,Mark

Drew,Like others stated it is not possible. And even if it was technically possible it would be a very poor flying technique.Michael J.

Try this...for practice only...Use the A/P on an ILS approach until you are at 1000ft AGL.Disengage the A/P, but NOT the A/T, set your speed to the final approach speed, make sure SPD is selected on the MCP.You now have control of the aircraft control surfaces, but the A/throttle will try to maintain the set speed.Make your approach. At or above 200 feet, you will need to disengage the A/Throttle and hit idle at about 10-20 feet in the flare. Use the A/Throttle to control your speed while making the approach, gives you one less thing (speed/power setting) to worry about.This is ONLY for practicing approaches...once you have the movement of your stick mastered, then it's time to dump the autothrottle as well and fly "real".I am having lots of fun dumping the auto pilot and throttle at about 5-10000 feet and flying all the way down.Hope this helps.Rob.