Originally Posted by
theFirstDave
Get yourself in a a piston plane (SE or light twin) and haul VFR around the LAX area. That'll get your PIC skills a workout and give you a boat load of situation awareness, energy management experience and more.
At the very least, it'll be fun again.
Also, earlier it was suggested that you can get into a glider to keep up your manual skills. And while I'm a supporter of both, it would be an onerous demand for most people's lives. But luckily, you can still go a very long way very much easier, by flying the jet at work! (And by that I mean at some altitudes above 1000, to include some level-offs, level turns, speed changes, flap changes, localizer and GS intercepts... even in IMC!)