Joe, don't quite get the point of your closing question or if it was aimed at Landflap. I know the guy very well and we shared almost identical backgrounds. Both of us wound up on A340 in our last types although within different carriers. In 40 odd years, we both accrued around 22500 hrs from Cadet to Senior Captain. Not that difficult to give you are "day,week,month,year" average but it varied a lot over 40 years. Not sure a definitive answer would satisfy the answer you seek. Thankfully, my last carrier had a highly visioned Training Dept and we were all encouraged to manually fly whenever we wished. Recurrent training ( I love that phrase) involved a mix of handflying, full auto and lots of CRM .