Raw Data flying? The only way to travel. When doing one of my first line checks, the training captain aksed what type of approach I would be doing back at the airfield. I thought I needed to do it so said a 'self positioned, raw data hand flown ILS' What a nut! I could have done it fully coupled, radar vectored etc but no, I made life difficult for myself. DOH!
As I fly offshore helis, so i guess it's slightly different, but I still fly nearly every other sector I do as PF, Raw Data hand flown, no matter what the weather is doing. If it's really bad, push the buttons.
No good an LPC/OPC coming around and having to hand fly it and not having practiced it! We aren't allowed to couple up on LPC's, even though the ops manual says we should use AP whenever we can!!! Go figure!