When I qualified on the A320, my instructors told me : if you switch off everything, you have a C47 in your hands…Very nice to hear, but I had flown the C47 in the seventies, and I did not agree with them. Even without AP, autothrust, Fds, the airbus remains a very special plane. Autotrimmed all the time, flying a load factor, which means that once you have established it on the ILS with, say, 54% N1, you can fold your arms and watch it appraoch peacefully, muttering « I don’t need you my friend, I don’t need you »…As for the flare, you are still giving electrical impulses to a box which takes into account the radio height, the load factor etc…to enable you to move the stick back while it moves tne elavator down, so that you believe you are flaring it…You never fly that plane, it flies you. Very well, I must say.