hongkongfooey apology accepted.
I agree that GA doesn’t teach us to fly a fully automated A320 but, it does teach us to fly it when the automatics start misbehaving by reverting to the scarebus’s pseudo manual flight system.
It’s no different to a light aeroplane then. Pull stick back, aeroplane pitches up yada yada. The problem in my view is that the new gen pilots who learn the basics in the sim won’t see these automated jets as just user-friendly aeroplanes, but as computers to manage. Computers you can trust. They won’t know any different.
I feel that the experience gained in GA is under-rated by some for whatever reasons. Just because some developed countries manage to manifest airline pilots without a GA industry doesn’t mean it’s not the best training ground for countries that do.