Your argument regarding the role of the Capt surmises your incredibly ignorant knowledge of multi crew airline ops. You'll find a majority of Capts will readily admit that their younger FO will have better stick & rudder skills. A degradation of motor skills due age is a fact of life. But that is not the role of the Capt per se. He has earned that position & is there due experience, knowledge, leadership & overall management of the flight.
So what? You can do a perfect barrel roll or cross wind take off but faced with a sick passenger or systems problems when in Afghanistan or Pakistani airspace, conduct a correct let down procedure & asses the best alternate to land at (if required) is when all this experience, knowledge, leadership & flight management comes in to play. You go to the "nearest" airport which happens to be Charbahar? Good luck with that call..... "But the FMC said it was nearest!!" Just an example.
No amount of CBT's or multi-guess aircraft systems exams can teach that. Least of all lowering tbe gene pool to the lowest factor of zero hours, zero experience & zero knowledge (bit from memory based parrot-esque answers to pass the CX interview).
Last edited by ChinaBeached; 4th Aug 2011 at 23:30.