What is the difference between flight director and autopilot?

What is the difference between flight director and autopilot? An autopilot actually moves the aircraft’s control surfaces to change the aircraft’s attitude, heading, and altitude, whereas the flight director calculates the desired attitude based on what’s programmed into the autopilot and displays that desired attitude on the attitude indicator. What does flight director do on … Continue reading What is the difference between flight director and autopilot?