7gcbc- sideslipping a swept wing a/c is a huge no no.
Flying is a degradeable skill....if you dont use it you lose it.
Remember the chalk on the wall analogy. People with 15,000 hours will lose the skills slower than the 1000 autopilot merchants.
This is not only my view but that of the CAA - check out FODC 24/2004
www.caa.co.uk/publications.
Our part A encourages you to take the flight director out. We have just started doing total electrical failures in the sim (manual flying on standbys only) if you want a reason to keep current with hand flying you need to look at the results.
My aircraft type mandates manual flying for the single engine go-around , TCAS avoidance , EGPWS and Windshear recovery. All relatively high stress manoeuvres which do not need to be carried out by people "frightened" of flying the aircraft manually.
Yes some of our AP in at 1000' out at decide pilots are afraid of the aircraft (stressed out / sweat like pigsetc ) when flying manual approaches.