OAT teach visual approaches from the downwind during the MCC/JOT course. Most airlines expect you to be able to fly raw data for the assessment for employment. All airlines I have flown for encourage you to develop hand flying skills, and test you in the sim by flying circling approaches etc. however in some third world airlines it only the automatics that stop them from killing all the passengers. This was a comment in Flight some years ago by a training captain from one such airline. I should add that the comment probably includes first world airlines these days.
Last edited by rogerg; 24th Dec 2007 at 10:42.