Completed the survey, thanks for sharing the link Centaurus (if you recall a while back you came to my aid when I was questioning why so many captains respond in the negative to my requests to fly an approach manually
). I agree with Mach's unscientific observation concerning cultures and languages in the flight deck. I gave up on Asia and now fly in Europe and noticed a major change in attitude on the fligth deck. We do visual approaches, circling approaches and half the airfields only have NPAs. In my last airline, the first two types of approaches would've been handled by the captain as a rule, and the latter, well most captains would take control due to their belief the junior could never pull it off. However, collecting such data would almost certainly result in some very un-PC conclusions, so I understand why your colleague hasn't done so!