I'm confused here,
Surely we're not suggesting that flying the airbus with those side-sticks is referred to as 'manual flying'!
I've always been Lockheed and Boeing trained, but to my mind, that side-stick is just another form of autopilot!
Further, airbus pilots don't have the capability to 'hand fly' their machines at any time, outside the airbus interpretation of hand flying.
I've always referred to 'hand flying' in the conventional sense, that is, with no computer aids at all, purely the inputs from the pilot on raw data. Surely you airbus pilots remember hand flying....don't you?
Cheers, I think!
