Originally Posted by
Smilin_Ed
Please translate. Thanks.
Ed
What I mean is that even an initially great pilot can't stay great without practise.
You can't practise being a pilot with the automation doing all the work.
Unless you daily/regularly fly raw data/ old school navaids/ no flight directors/ manual thrust etc etc, how can you be expected to be any good at it?
These things are eminently perishable skills.