Yea, iŽam with you late.
How about good old airmanship and the basic instrument scanning technic.
speed is everything during approach, but i know the problem.
I used to fly an older version of my current bird without A/T and those days you had total control over approach speeds ( scanning). When you use A/T all the time you depend on it to work flawlessly all the time and of course you sometimes loose scanning of speed, espessially when you think the damn thing works normally.
But either way these guys also had VSI and how three guys in the front donŽt react at that altitude is not good to say the least. You have the thrust/speedcontrol in your hands at that height???