Gaining (and maintaining) the requisite manual flying skills to cope with
what is becoming an extremely rare eventuality is just no longer practical.
Somehow I think Sully would disagree with that.
Rare events, "isolated incidents" (how I hate that bloody phrase!), "freak accidents",
etc - only need to happen
once. And its THAT which I diligently maintain my manual
flying skills, even on the 320 suck-squirt.
Show me an event where the FMC, A/P or A/T saved an aircraft and I'll
