Hand flying practice.
Several other forums are discussing lack of REAL flying practice. How many of you PROFESSIONAL pilots actually hand-fly your automated jets when on deadheading legs?
Simulator training is all well and good, but it is all premeditated drills. Who really simulates single engine failures, limited panel flying, A/P and A/T failures, raw data approaches etc.in the aircraft?
There is a dangerous trend developing in the accident stats, of loss of control of perfectly serviceable aircraft due to a lack of basic handling skills.
In my experience, very few operators are taking the opportunity to self improve their hand flying skills, and use their imagination to practice abnormal drills. Complacency......I reckon so!