Complacency vs. Hands on
As a non professional, I wonder whether a manually flown approach every so often wouldn't encourage PF to click/click more quickly. As an occasional passenger on transport aircraft, my expectation is that reversion to a
manual approach shouldn't be a big deal. Sounds from PPrune like SOP forbids (discourages?) this in many companies or am I wrong? Shouldn't this be a routine part of airline flying? If it isn't, not just in simulators but in the aircraft, how certain can we be of good performance when the chips are down? 447?