If reading the ASIANA thread in R & N is anything to go by, hardly any of the "sky gods" are now capable of flying an approach in VMC without flight directors and autothrottle.
How ever did mankind get this far ?
What also surprises me are the number of posters over there being shot down in flames for suggesting that speed is controlled with the stick and the aiming point with power.
Presumably that doesn't work on swept wing jets but nobody is saying that ... just firing from the hip.