"Darrell S" wrote in message
You can get lazy using flight directors. I did some evaluations for a
start-up airline while working for Flight Safety Boeing (now Alteon).
Because the candidates normally wouldn't be experienced in the MD-80
simulator we used for the evaluation we had them fly without flight
directors, autopilot, or auto-throttles.

That is the truth. Most of the airline pilots I fly with would have a bad
day if they had to handfly an ILS to mins on raw data. They've been using
flight directors and autothrottles for so long, their scan is gone. I
brought this up to our training department. The director of training's
response was that in his 29 years of A-320 experience, he had never known of
a dual FD failure. I showed him a copy of the discrepency I had written up
that morning, after hand-flying a raw data ILS to mins with a full load of
pax.

D.