sabenaboy
What I am trying to say is practice manual by all means but whenever you are being pushed to limit by the environment let this time be, practice another time. I am not preaching but expressing another view point. See it this way, we hone our skills for that occasion when we will have a situation and the automation won't be there but to achieve that we should be carefull enough not to create an incident that would not have happened. For the same reason we practice most of the things in SIM and not in real aircraft. Afterall when the automation is to be used if not in trying circumstances? Any way if that is your company policy then I suppose nothing wrong in being loyal to pay check.