Maintaining Hand Flying Proficiency

Situational awareness is key during all phases of flight - also the ability to recover the aircraft from unusual attitudes and revert back to full manual controll at any time.

There's a great online-article on the airfractsjournal that was published some time ago that states "Real pilots embrace new technology, but never become slaves to it" 

There's also a great video presentation on youtube, held by an American Airlines pilot on the topic of automation dependency vs. manual (raw-data) flight. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0rYX-Jn6o8