B-738 Crash in Russia Rostov-on-Don
Seem to remember on my 14yrs on the BA777 many visual approaches in the Caribbean, Africa, TLV etc.Visual approach = no Flight Director.
Autotrottle on a FBW is very good, but was quite often manually 'assisted' when required.
Personally I tried to ensure 50% of my approaches (subject to sensible WX/ Fatigue limitations) were manually flown albeit most times with FD/AT.
Overall this fitted in with the BA policy at the time, and I feel enabled an an adequate standard of operation.
ATPL 20000hrs IRE/TRE.Retired.