Arrrghh!!!
Here we go again on this "bushpilots are polers", "airline pilots are button pushers" twaddle!
As a trainer I've seen many "I've flown everything" types who fail to come up to scratch. They may have flown loads of types but how well?
And yes, many airlines do practice dead stick landings in the sim, and pilots carry them out successfully.
The most important point in all this is how well trained and capable you are on your CURRENT type.
I speak from direct experience of training and checking crews, and can categorically guarantee that there is no correlation between previous bush flying or DC-6 experience and the ability to dead stick a modern airliner, other than the correlation between ANY pilot's level of experience, skill and training.
[ 28 August 2001: Message edited by: Maximum ]