Angel's :
I concur, you and I are not getting anywhere.
As to the type rating on a PBY, to the best of my knowledge to fly one on most of the planet you need a type rating...in any case I make a fair amount of money training pilots for the type rating.
With regard to the Airbus versus the PBY, there is no comparison between the two, the PBY requires hands on flying skills and operates in two different enviorments land and water. The Airbus is a different machine alltogether sort of like flying your home computer.
One of my most frustrating problems with jet pilots , especially Airbus drivers is they have forgotten that an aircraft has a rudder.
And with regard to flying by set numbers, it doesen't work worth a damn in the PBY especially trying to fly the blue line.
Chuck