I do advocate that he should have begun with a simple, easy to repair foamy likely to do little to no damage to anyone and go on from there. If it is not for him then he will come out of it without any great loss. I am not pushing the point that he should start with easy autopilots and then go to the big league, rather that he should be shown how to work his way to get to where he wants to be. start at the bottom and work his way up. The only problem is that he wasn't really assisted in that regard. Surely you cannot disagree with what I have just said.

There must be someone out there who can explain how they got to the point where they can confidently work with autopilots. If so, how would you instruct someone to develop the skills to run an autopilot?