Oh, you're talking about a visual approach, where the runway or preceding aircraft is in sight at all times.
I thought you were talking about a 17 year old girl flying her long cross country in Alaska after having been taught to fly by her RAAF father.
You're not going to tell us that the "beancounters" are causing airline pilots to no longer be able to identify visual references during visual approaches, are you?
Let's keep the conversation credible. What student pilot isn't taught to use visual references when navigating by pilotage? What bearing has this on "beancounters," the alleged decrease in global airmanship as the result of airline conspiracy, and the intentional lowering of the bar by airline training departments (under duress from their respective "beancounters")?