Do you have to program everything via the FMS? Can't one simply tune up an NDB and an ILS frequency on an old fashioned control head?
On countless occasions in the simulator I have seen the pilot (s) settle into their seats and first thing they do is dive into the FMC and start button pushing. You remind them that the session is simply to practice visually flown crosswind landings. But that doesn't stop them from programming the circuit pattern into the FMC with radials and distances to define upwind, downwind, base and final tracks and runway extensions. The circuits are flown with eyes fixed on the flight director and no one looks outside until final approach. Frankly I am lost for words and I pity these creatures whose crutch is the FMC and whose foreheads are beaded with sweat if they are asked to fly raw data and no automatics in the circuit.