I take the Winter off at my outfit, so it's usual to not have flown for 4 months when I go back into the SIM. I find it's not the hand flying but the overall environment that adds to your workload, I can hand fly perfectly well from the SIm day 1, to the line. It's all the rest of it that takes a few days to get back, the SA and general working environment. Usually the hardest part is all the SOP changes that take place over the Winter!