This was an extremely good and useful thread, with some excellent thoughts, until the children came out to play!!
Helen49 is quite correct, I expect, as many contributors here, unlike myself, have never trained anyone in an air transport airplane....and when confronted with training facts, are left only to speculate...wrongly, in most cases.
Take ASFKAP, as an example...the guy is a mechanic, not a pilot, therefore wouldn't know the first thing about pilot training, especially in a company that he has no association with.
Par for the course.
