ddo2 wrote on Mar 7^th, 2011 at 4:18pm:

Can you just 86 the "fix and not use the pitch control on the A/P?  It isn't ideal, but I would rather be able to hand fly it.

That's pretty much what I did before getting Acceleration.  I would turn off the AP pitch, use the manual trim to get it where it needed to be for T/O and Climb or Approach/Landing, then turn the AP back on.  It would usually hold the current pitch fine once I had it settled in and stable.   Not ideal at all, as you say.   I prefer to have it work properly, so I spent the $$, and don't regret it.