@RAT 5, yes, all that is agreed and I am trying to think of a way to move on and improve the situation. With autolands, we all had to perform and record at least three real or practice autolands every six months, (and those performed in the simulator would count towards this total.)
So not a very onerous task, yet it was enough to provide gentle pressure towards keeping that task alive in our minds. I think if we applied the same criteria to mandate raw data manually flown ILS approaches, that might help turn around the 'Children of the magenta/green line' syndrome and help keep our instrument scans and manual flying skills alive.
In quite a subtle way, it would send a message throughout the industry saying "This is what we want you to do, and we are going to let you practice it (conditions permitting)".
If it is not mandated, a significant number of us will never do it, (because we don't like potentially embarrassing ourselves in front of another pilot), and that is how we lose our skills.
Last edited by Uplinker; 20th Dec 2015 at 08:56.