Originally Posted by
Lookleft
I would be interested to know why the question about C/Bs and check flights is being asked in the first place.
I smell the question comes from bizjet practices. There are large number of bizjet operators who do the sim only once a year and one in between is replaced by the training on a real aircraft - sounds it might have happened there. I have a hard time to believe any airlines (at least first and second world) are doing anything like pulling cbs on a real aircraft check rides.