There's a lot of old-fashioned flying ability that has gone lost, particularly because a lot of the younger generation are "direct entry," never putting in those long hours doing flight instruction, and poling some bug-smasher with no autopilot and rudimentary equipment in crappy weather. (This always makes me think of that guy hung in chains who shouts that, by God, it's taught him to respect the Romans!)
On the other hand, a lot of the younger guys are much more at home with all this computerized stuff, so that it's not all negative.
There's a lot of room left for self-improvement, evenings spent looking over training material instead of watching dwarf porn on the pay-per-view, while I think that encouraging hand-flying when conditions permit might be a good idea.