Originally Posted by
Ollie Onion
Why stress about it, if the Airline wants you to use AThr at all times then why not just do it. I hate flying with those pilots who want to do everything manually on every approach. Funnily enough when I get paired with them in the sim it rarely improves their hand flying :-) I find the sim use of manual flight more than sufficient to keep my hand flying up to standard.
I’m obviously not as naturally gifted as you are. I need to do it regularly so I don’t lose the skill.