DON'T get me started. As a silly old bastard, who believes every pilot in this country should be thrown out into the bush, and taught to think for her/him self, (there is nothing like standing on a deserted runway in the GAFA and work a problem out for yourself, just you and the flies.) No comfortable Sim, no obliging LAME, just you. What you learn then, no SIM can ever teach you. Self preservation comes first, then some lateral thinking, then a decision. And you have started a basic airmanship that will take you thru your career. (If your decision is correct) You cannot build a brick wall unless you have a firm foundation, and that is the same in this career. I absolutely despair that this sort of thinking has been taken away, though the decisions of some senior QF Skippers has given me some hope when they returned to the basics under pressure, and dutifully return their bus and PAX to safety. But you can bet your hat, they were either service trained or GA trained. If you have not scared the absolute !!!!e out of yourself at least once, then you should not be flying commercial jets.