we are in the cockpit; no one else, and we owe it to ourselves, our passengers and our profession to ensure we are well practised and skilled in all aspects of the operation including hand flying.
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pedro. Some airlines today have SOPs expressly forbidding pilots from doing what you suggest. In these days of QARs* monitoring every aspect of our professional lives
(*quick access recorders to the uninitiated), a captain who has hand flown an approach, even if he stays within every performance and accuracy parameter set down by the person who wrote the QAR trigger programme, will be called in for tea and bikkies to explain why he was hand flying the aircraft when he should have been using the highest level of automation available at all times as demanded by the company SOPs.
I have a friend who was called in to explain why he was hand flying on departure above 15,000' after that sin triggered the company QAR.