LEMPER
I hope that your ACARS is more robust then - mine keeps stating "message incomplete"!!
The possibility is that the new a/c such as A380/B787/B747-8/A350 will be 'autoland as normal SOP's and manual landing as non-normal'.
CNS-ATM (CPDLC/GNSS/ADS-B) may bring the day of the non-voice/all-automatic flight closer, with manual practice in the Sim only. Then what price nostalgia?