A flight director thingy are cross hairs or airplane wings that show the pilot how to fly, if you keep the cross hairs where they should be the aircraft will perform the way that it has been programmed.To insure that ex-Alaskan DC-6 pilots do not do thier own thing most flight departments require you to use the flight director thingy at all time. What flight department heads do not know is that ex-Alaskan DC-6 pilots have aquired the ability to fly through the flight director and do what they feel is best for the airplane and passsenger at that given time.Better yet most ex-Alaskan DC-6 pilots have the sense to turn the thing off and tell the ex-commuter flight department head where to shove it.