and their company allows them to fly raw data.
And that is one key to pure flying skill. The vast majority of airline operators in all parts of Asia are so wedded to flight directors that is practically a Mayday situation if the crew are forced to fall back on raw data. In a Middle East airline when the QAR revealed that one captain switched off his flight director to keep his hand in on a fully visual CAVOK climb, he was fined by the airline.