This thread can go on forever....
The FMS magenta track line makes npa's utterly piss-easy to fly manually, it really riles me that anyone can cock these up with a damn autopilot engaged too.
As mentioned above, it is horses for courses, we fly automated airl;iners nowadays and they are designed to fly through the automatics. flight Managers look at FDA stats and draw obvious conclusions- more "events" occur when hand flying or with automation turned off. They have KPIs to lower "events" and logic tells them to stop people hand flying to lower the events.
Counter logic say to make folk hand fly more- but would lawyers agree? This is the quandry the Managers face. Don't forget they might only fly one day a month themselves, with F/Os terrrified to be stuck in a flightdeck with them and perrforming accordingly.....
Hmm.