You had a good instructor. Some people learned to fly as you describe, but at 250 KIAS (been there, done that, in the military, 20 years ago, all paper charts, in an aircraft that only had TACAN, flying M0.8 by hand, no autopilot). It’s a skill like any skill, if you don’t train, you lose it. As @N6722C said, use the sim to be minimally proficient, it’s what I do, because now everyone is flying all GPS/AP coupled approaches,and every 6 months I have to shoot an ILS in manual, single engine, unstabilized controls in the sim, I use MSFS to help train for that. It helps a lot. One day it may save your @ss, you never know…
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