Hi PEI 3721! Thanks, but Bainbridge is well known...
I'm looking for recent studies about this phenomenon. What's recent? In this case I'd define it as the last three or four years.
There are rumors, talks, forums, opinions that manual handling skills of pilots are declining because of different focus in simulator and flight training, similar or different reasons, but I'm looking for (rather...) scientific studis, because this is the only thing wich can be cited and helps to examine the causes.