I don't consider flying the bugs or even hand flying to be training, it should be all in a normal's day work. You do what is required and hopefully your SOPs allow for some choices to be made by the Captain. Pax on board or not, you hand flew, flew the bugs or were fully coupled, depending on the weather conditions and what the crew desired. Our SOPs dictated when you should be fully coupled, basically anytime on approach with weather below; cloud base of 600 feet/4000 m vis/200 above DH/MDA. You could "practice" anytime otherwise....