Originally Posted by PEI 3721
The belief that more hand flying will improve the level and extent of expertise is not supported by science.
Apart from the one area where we
must be able to hand-fly: landing. And so we continue to have all manner of prangs (overshoots, undershoots, sideways excursions and botched go-arounds) because the automation-dependent pilots can't hand-fly the aircraft to the required aim point at the correct speed and put it on the ground safely.