For an experienced pilot/sim instructor to be teaching pilots to "get their hands off of the controls" makes my skin crawl......do not become a passenger if you are the pilot
Used to be a pet peeve of mine, our 412 and -76 co-pilots mostly were low experience and in their first multi with all the gizmos job,
gulli was one of them. It was a very laid back job and standards applying were those set by the PIC, which varied as you can imagine. Pilot as passenger was one, Vne exceedance was paid little attention to by many for example. One crew had an engine failure in the cruise and they reported the 76 assumed an unusual attitude, how does that happen? Someone asleep at the wheel?
SAS, just saw your post, we did in fact fly single pilot prior to having co-pilots employed, and it complicated the job by having to make work, which brought about its own pitfalls. Had it been an IFR operation two crew would have been ideal, but it was VFR (tongue in cheek). To fly at night or IMC we had to crew with two captains, how fraught was that, two people who both thought they were in command, even though one had been designated.