I have flown with quite a few 'cadets'.
On the whole I find them professional, capable, pleasant and in most cases extremely good operators.
Could they handle a pilot incap? Well we could all ask ourselves exactly how would we react as in a stress situation. Until it happens, and for most, it never does, there is just as much chance we would freeze as 'them'.
To merely tar them with the brush of 'incapable' is unfair and rather a sweeping statement.
I think it is all too easy to look at a two striper and feel we have to impart our 'superior' standpoint on them when in reality I treat them in exactly the same way as I would an SFO whom I know. Well at least I try. Do I get it right? I don't know but I certainly don't look at them as incapable of doing the job nor do I think they are idiots for taking this deal.
I think if you spoke to most of them you would realise they are largely decent level headed upstanding guys and girls.
I blame easyJet, CTC and Oxford. Not these cadets.