Happy days ..there was a little skipper ex hamble who would put in a boot of rudder just to mess up a good landing. Never flew the gripper doing my own power although I did do one or two calling the power when it was U/S.
Mr Wu was outside my time but did fly XM which is the one which Cyprus had pranged and stitched the wing back on.
Avoided Boeings but if you wanted an aircraft that was difficult to fly on auto throttle try the DC8..fortunately by that time I had learnt that one flies the attitude for speed and control the ROD with power rather than the point using the flight director and let the auto throttle sort the speed out.
‘I got back into gliding in the 90s and reverted back to BEA days and fixated on the aiming point and controlling the speed with the brakes..a what I unfairly called “old fart” caught me out and I realised how bad habits can resurface in spite of doing hundreds of approaches on raw data.
rgds Alan