I agree whole heartedly, hand flying at altitude is extremely dangerous if you are close to your max FL and yank the stick back as your are dumped into unreliable airspeed, it could definitely result in death!
Of course you could breath for 1 second, work out what has just happened and why, whilst you are in no real out of trim condition and then apply the necessary memory items.......oh there we go........disaster avoided.
Whilst we (I) talk about unreliable airspeed, has anyone tried 4 degrees and 70% in cruise on the B777 in the sim? Not convinced I would try that myself, more like 2 degrees and 85% (depending on weight etc).
Anyway......jetblast here we come.
GBD