Originally Posted by
tdracer
All I know is that I'd wouldn't want to be sitting in the back on a stormy night and the A/T was INOP, and the pilot flying hadn't done a manual thrust landing in a year...
Thats a bit simplistic, I have seen some people who regularly practise hand flying balls up hand flying exercises in the sim and people who never practise blitz it. Hand flying practise does not automatically make for a better pilot and vice versa.