Please bear in mind that training is only a part of the issue, culture, commercial pressure, are equally importand to consider. As in many airlines today training is becomming a tickbox exercise and because of all the required (JAR-FCL) items there is hardly any time to actually learn.
Who of you while preparing for a sim-ride are flying a bit more hands-on, and or raw data?
Does this not mean that we are now training on the AC to prepare for a sim-ride?
Airlines such as FR are complying with the legal requirements, but how good is the quality of their training actually?