Ideally, a competent instrument pilot should, with hardly raising of an eyebrow, be able to switch seamlessly from AFDS/ automatics operation, to disconnecting all the goodies and hand flying raw data. if the pilot cannot accomplish that task without the potential for a PAN call, then seriously he needs to recognise his failings and rectify them. This applies equally to those in the LH or RH seat. A professional pilot should be equally skilful at both tasks - automatics or raw data flight.
Do you want to ground half of the commercial fleet worldwide??
Unfortunately I am not even sarcastic with the above .....
On another note: Why don't you guys read the report and discover that there were some funny switchings in the whole process. Switchings that eventually lead to having to display the absent skills. It was not necessary, but provoked through some more incompetence. Again, not sarcastic, but realistic.
