The same situation existed for the EC-155 too: we started operating in 2001 and the FFS came into service in 2004! Meantime, we trained about 30 pilots - most of whom came straight off the B212.....
212 and others. The point made by the passenger, The Learner, was specifically directed at the brief correlating in simple language who does what with the controls during an approach, such that both crew fully recognise beforehand how all three profiles, lateral, longitudinal and vertical, will be managed and modulated thought the approach.
I understood what the pasenger was asking, but my point was that in a properly operated environment these concepts are so basic and intrinsic that they should not require detailed discussion within the cockpit, but should be detailed comprehensively in the OMB/OMA and thereafter referred to as SOP. Variations from that SOP do need to be briefed in more detail - using knowledge gained in training - such as flying with a u/s collective trim and therefore a degraded coupled status. In fact, during simulator training, we would use a collective trim failure as a recognised malfunction, specifically to create this unfamiliar "mixed mode" situation.