Another enjoyable first coffee; you make a couple of points early in the piece:-
Centaurus – From simulator experience it is clear that some crews cannot be bothered to study the QRH contents unless they are coming up for a simulator session.
and - Even then the subjects to be covered in the next simulator session are usually well known beforehand and pilots have been known to simply concentrate on only those specific subjects to be tested.
Given this a lot of thought over the years – and wonder if this is not the fault of younger crew coming through but the 'way' they are trained at ground school. It seems to me that the 'modern' method is to train them to pass an exam, rather than 'learn' and explore the subject matter, this attitude then pervades from basic training to 'on line'. I find the 'younger' crew will happily 'learn their craft' when the reasons for study are made clear; but if they come from a 'tick a box' background, into a 'tick a box' TCO system, one can hardly blame them for being 'slack'. Just a thought. (not bagging Flight Schools).
We need a return to the old style 'crash comic', the amount of knowledge distribution triggered by 'smoko/ pub' discussion of the latest issue is legendary, hardly seem hear any these days.