Hence,
(My added emphasis).
I suspect we’re actually in furious agreement about that point. Certainly most people good enough to get into a cadetship given the high levels of psychometric testing and inherent smarts that come with that would be able to be taught the stick and rudder.
Oops, should have read it twice after a long night slaving over a hot Airbus.
Regarding your point about testing and smarts: hmmmm. Not sure. It would be illuminating to see a study of the correlation between those things. Forgive my cynicism-I'm not even sure an indifferent manual handling skill set is even a barrier to entry anymore. What’s worse is, having had enough Kool-Aid and seen the market's apparent acceptance of ineptitude I think that it probably actually doesn’t matter from a risk:benefit point of view.