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I agree, I fly for an Asian carrier, and ours tries to teach visual approaches using HDG Select and VS mode while on autopilot. They even teach using the clock to time your downwind leg FFS!
Don't crow too much, the same autopilot-visual is becomming prevelant in the UK too, especially amongst Low Standards airlines. And the entire 'visual' approach is flown on the map display. The problem being that nobody is looking outside, to see the big picture, and the approach becomes more of a video game with no 'reset' button.
Perhaps that is what these crews were looking for - the big red 'reset to 10nm' button.