It is surprising and alarming that many new pilots are apparently happy to just centre their FDs and assume that everything is OK.
Now that we don't have to record our autolands, I think that we should have to record raw data, manually flown ILS approaches. We should be required to make a certain number of such approaches in every six month period (weather and conditions permitting) and record them on a form, like we used to for autolands.
By making it official and mandatory, it might start to get us all into thinking about raw data as being a normal procedure, and it would help us hone our flying and prevent ourselves becoming lazy by not allowing our skills to atrophy.
@Dupre, just be bloody careful with Airbus. The systems are interlinked and you can get yourself into serious trouble (as others have done). For example, turning both FDs off forces the A/THR into speed mode - which is usually a safe thing, but just be careful about unintended consequences caused by interactions between systems
