Aha, now we're close to identifying WHY there was an increasing number of unstable approach
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Kap,
Whilst the fact that there are many inexprienced pilots is a very good incentive for conservative SOPs, there is no suggestion that there are more unstable approaches than before, simply that these days they are more readily detected as QARs are now common.
As to low time F/Os and less experienced Captains, they have been a fact of life in much of the world for a long time.
Where you are in Japan, haven't airline pilots typically come through a College/Cadet type scheme and pitched up for their first day of line ops with a few hundred hours? That is cetainly the case in Europe and anywhere else that doesn't have a large GA sector.
I do, however, certainly agree with you re "Pay-to-fly" type schemes, the products of which then go onto "last resort" type airlines with high pressue ops and dodgey corporate cultures (I wouldn't want to HARP on about this, but an airline FRom Ireland springs to mind!!).
I am also resolved that it will take twisted metal and dead people to get this message across...