Folks,
Looks like us "old fogies" were correct all the way along.
Re. Multi Crew Licenses (MPL) some courses are well done, with good pilots coming out the end.
Some MPL courses are terrible, and ignore much of what we know, both from an academic and practical sense, where proper manual flying skills are never developed --- the basic muscle memories are absent, in my experience this type of MPL course comes from "entrepreneurial" "service providers" , they don't know what they don't know.
Bottom line: Proper manual flying skills are critical, they must be developed and maintained, get the accountants out of the Ops Manuals and SOPs.
Tootle pip!!