Flew with a guy last week, circa 2600hrs, slight crosswind, aircraft pointing into wind all the way down the approach (for 8 miles) and in the flare we were all over the place due to aileron input the wrong way. What is going on?
I think all the CTC proponants have a touch of the Stokholm syndrome.
We have accepted onto the flightdeck a breed of operators, experts in lists, SOPs, tables, FCOMs, but no effective intelligence or piloting skills whatsoever.
The distrust that the CRM empire has instilled in them has ensured that they won't learn from their more experienced colleagues because they don't value experience, having being indoctrinated by the CRM Taliban that old pilots are non SOP.
Fine if you want an operator, but where are we going to get pilots from?