411A.
Quote. >"Do you really believe that they can accomplish these tasks by not listening and learning from their more experienced senior crew members?
OR, do you truly believe that all things aeronautical can be learned in text books and classrom sessions, so that a brand new pilot truly 'knows it all' and hardly needs any input from more senior/experienced crew mewmbers?"<
Not PC these days, I know, but with you all the way.
The number of times I must have mentioned to some callow "whizz kid" , "Think about it. The Captains don't get their four bars for nothing. Watch and listen. You'll always learn something.............even if it's sometimes how NOT to do it !
Sleeve.