Originally Posted by
fab777
As a consequence of this, we see a captain unable to fly a single engine return to London, asking his FO to hold the throttle and keep the speed for him....
As the normal definition of manual handling is "Manually controlling the Flightpath and Speed of the aircraft" BA crews never practice manual/non FD flying, during normal route flying.
Its all OK though, they practice their skills once or twice a year with an Approach or two in the Sim!