I'm always fascinated why some airlines prefer to have its pilots fly manually in extremely marginal weather conditions with HUD rather than use autoland, where available.
It is always interesting to watch the landing tehnique of various pilots. It is common in the simulator to observe those pilots who are addicted to AP and FD use in CAVOK conditions for an ILS. The autopilot generally does a beautiful job of flying the ILS smoothly and accurately and the controls hardly move throughout. Perfect for passenger comfort too.
But when the pilot disengages the automatics at (say) 500 feet AFE we often see wild overcontrolling and invariably contradictory movements of ailerons (and thus flight spoilers) and even rudder pedals as if the pilot is fighting the Devil himself all the way to the flare where he then does a see-sawing flare and the PM has to be careful to make sure his balls are out of the way lest they be squashed between control column and seat. That's the beauty of the Airbus. There's no danger of the family jewels being squashed.