WHATTHEFUH is spot on and the training depts. of most Western Airlines also know it. Slowly we find more bits and pieces being added to LPC/OPC's which point to line pilots being found to have poor basic flying skills as well as only scant grasp of the autoflight system. We have recently had stall recovery, manual handling details, Unreliable speed drills, mishandled landings heavily covered, and you can sense from the briefings that the attitude is 'we want to make sure you know the basics'. Unfortunately, the elephant in the room is the massive growth in the number of inexperienced Captains and very inexperienced FO's being rostered together. Everyone knows its only a matter of time before one of the LoCos has a serious loss attributable to crew experience but seem curiously unwilling to address the problem for fear of offending those few who are getting hugely rich in the background.