Hi guys,
Long-time viewer, first-time poster.
The DODO tradition definitely had its advantages. Trainees and newbies were more than likely to come to a flight fully prepared in terms of route knowledge, radio frequencies, flight-deck SOPs and over-all attitude. This was probably due to the extensive "networking" available and provided by the upper-class to lower -class system.
But it is a brand new world.
Today, as one instructor duly noted, most Second Officers from AvSchool coming in training expect that they would be taught everything and are, consequently, left behind in the "loop of things" during a flight. The rationale is that having paid for their tuition, they have a right to expect to be taught everything. But their learning curve would be much less steeper had a more pervasive network of "info-dissemination" been at hand.
As you see, "putoks" are not completely useless.
This is not to imply that newer products are less capable, only more handicapped in the training process. However, it is still up to the individual trainee on how his training and career will eventually pan out.
Again, other airlines have dispatched this similar system and have come up with safe and proficient flight deck crew.
If this system is beneficial to PAL in the long-term, only time will tell.
Safe flying everyone