I won't be turning off basic levels of automation ie FD's. It's just not worth the paperwork if it goes wrong and I maintain you're degrading safety beyond that point
I respectfully disagree, safety is not necessarily degraded by flying an approach without flight directors; if it was unsafe it would be proscribed by the regulators. On occasion (eg circling approaches) continued use of automatics (including FDs can actually increase workload). It is important to maintain proficiency at all levels of automation from the minimal permitted all the way to Cat III.