Alpagueur320,
Good on you but I think maybe you have missed the point here, caused by the thread drift no doubt. This was meant to be about long haul flying where a pilot may only get two landings a month and those being at say LHR and HKG during rush hour. Add to this a company requirement to use automatics wherever possible and certainly in busy airspace after an all night, 13 to 14 hour flight. I think it is just not always possible to do a reasonable amount of safe hand flying on those type of ops. What are your thoughts on long haul flying in this regard.