Certainly ANZ has a sterile cockpit policy but I would be disappointed if a pilot were not
capable of chatting while flying, if it took all of their spare brain capacity to just physically fly the plane. I mean this is our job right? The physical flying is a fundamental skill that should sit bubbling away in the background. If you can't perform that fundamental skill and have some brain space left over then should you be there?
Yeah sure its so easy flying a jet mate, she'll be right, no one really needs training flying one at all. I reckon I can stop a 737 max from nose diving after takeoff too cause I am that good.
Flying a jet is, in many respects, easier than flying a turboprop or a piston twin.
Managing a jet can be harder, but you're not managing it in the recruitment sim, you're just flying it around at 200 knots and yes that is easy enough.