411A says hand fly more and be proficient. As he claims to have done 3 summers flying from MAN in the IT market he should well know that one thing UK Charter Pilots do lots of is hand flying as most of the airfields we go are procedural without radar and without ILS .
Autopilot not much use is such places as Iraklion,Kos Rhodes.Lanzarote ,Furteventura,Mikonos, Samos.Santorini,Funchal,Gibraltar to name just a few.
Since I left the UK Charter market to fly for an international long haul airline I have never done a real circuit and every approach has been radar vectored to an ILS with just a few exceptions such as Perth R/W 03, the Essendon arrival to R/W 34 MEL and DPS R/W 09 and the old HKG ILS to Visual.