Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Probably can be done inside a sim for much less. Since pilots do their recurrent sim checks every 6 months anyhow, in fact an airline without any flying at all would have half of the staff inside the 90 days limit just because of those.
You could be right, but the necessity to do real-life landings, given the actual standstill, sounds remote.
Indeed, it could be done in the sim, however do not forget that now there are a lot of pilots who were not in a sim in the last 6 months either as training stopped entirely including OPCs/LPCs.
I do not think the above was a base training for recency but I can imagine in certain cases it might be easier to perform the 3 LDGs/TOs in a real airplane in the pilots' home countries than accessing an FFS due to all the border closures.