if the situation occurred where the captain becomes incapacitated in the cruise at 37,000 ft would the 250 hour first officer be able to safely fly that aircraft solo IMC all the way from cruise to the landing while making all the radio calls to ATC etc
This happened to me at about that phase of my flying. My Captain suffered food poisoning (airport cafeteria), and took a few hour "nap" while I flew to our intended destination (where medical treatment would be much more available if needed - it was not). The passengers were entirely unaware. Sure, multiple "events" could have saturated me, but the single event that passed all the workload to me was not a problem. I would hope that a pilot is not being allowed in the right seat without having been assessed for these minimum skills.