I admit I might be wrong about direct upgrade CRJ to MD11 as skipper, allthough I still suspect a former friend of mine did just that, but I stand corrected.
At the same time please tell me if a mainline pilot at LH can make it to a WB cockpit as skipper in 12-13 years?? I guess not, thus the carreer onto the freighter is shorter. Short carreers onto a MD11 is a recipe for disaster. I think I have mentioned it before but at the beginning of the MD11 ops mainly senior MD80 or DC10 pilots transited. There was no problem then. As later the new breed from RJ/CRJ and especially A320 pilots joined, the incidents increased above average. Coincidence? You tell me. I believe that you need to have experienced a pitch-power machine with slats and higher approach speeds for quite some time to be fit for the MD11. It's not rocket science, it's simply piloting experience on similar equippment.
The cry for SOP adherence and automation protection to cover up for the lack of quality in todays pilots just goes so far.