Absolutely A/Ps are coupled to GPS. One can load a flightplan ito the box and the A/P will fly the route including turns (hands off). All the pilot has to do is manage fuel and talk on the radio. A Baron would be so equipped. A sobering thought is the pilot was the same age as me.
"Absolutely A/Ps are coupled to GPS. One can load a flightplan ito the box and the A/P will fly the route including turns (hands off). All the pilot has to do is manage fuel and talk on the radio. A Baron would be so equipped."
Flat-out wrong. Maybe it was so equipped. Maybe it wasn't. A Baron is not a Citation -- this Baron could have had any particular level of avionics since 1968. An autopilot slaved to a GPS is a popular option -- but absolutely not all-pervasive. I know. My Beechcraft does NOT have its autopilot (S-Tec 50) slaved to its Garmin GPS.