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[Pacific Rim]Why do pilots experience force feedback when walking a Jaegar?

It seems that for a majority of the distance required to get to the Kaiju it would make sense to conserve energy for the fight and not walk all the way. I understand that during a battle feeling where you step is very important, but we can see that even walking is a strenuous task for the pilots (especially when walking through water). Why not have a seated autopilot mode until the Jaeger reaches its destination?
gpt
I believe it's at least partly due to the nature of the Drift.

You see when they first initialize a Jaeger the pilots go through an entire calibration routine designed to bring both their bodies, minds and machine into sync together. Once this sync is established it is most likely counter-productive to "break sync" and have the machine automatically do it's own thing, since combat may be required at a moment's notice and the time taken to re-establish a sync later potentially leaves them vulnerable in that type of situation.

The exact quote used is: *Two pilots, our minds, our memories connected.  Man and machine become one.*