.. no sense of adventure ...
Hobart to Launy, if not much traffic, we would wager a beer on a nominated maximum level ... just enough time at that level to roll over into the descent ... wager then depended on idle thrust until normal spin up on the ILS ..
made for some iterative mental calculations throughout the sector .. and, no using the FMS .. and, to make it interesting from time to time, we would do the whole thing single pilot with the other pilot keeping a watchful eye