Can't speak for anyone else, but this is my experience:
During basic flight training I had no trouble on approach or in the pattern and could aviate, navigate and communicate simultaneously without seemingly much effort. But what I could not "see" or "feel" was the last several feet to the landing, be it full stop or touch and go. My instructor pilot could not solve it. I got a new instructor pilot and he quickly determined that I was "spotting the deck" rather than looking out at the horizon. That solved it for me almost instantly. So while I apparently had "good hands", I definitely needed a little nurturing.
And with the F-35 and similar digital jets, the "nature" seems to be quite different than it was in my time. Apparently, one no longer needs "good hands" because the fly-by-wire provides that. But one does need a "good head" that can use all the high tech stuff to maximum advantage. It appears that at least some of the "right stuff" is different now.
Last edited by KenV; 20th Apr 2017 at 19:03.