Vilas, formal demonstration – exam / tests, may have little relevance in unusual and surprising situations. Part of the national authority’ clearance to continue flying until all aircraft had modified pitots included refresher training of UAS procedures. If the operators put this into practice without further explanation, then simulator instructors could easily over-focus on the loss of airspeed during takeoff.
Both take off and cruise are on the same check list, to the uninitiated the dynamic after-takeoff case is more demanding and has memory items, ideal simulator material. This would refresh and possibly bias crews’ initial reaction to any IAS failure towards the after takeoff case, particularly if associated with many other faults and warnings. If the incorrect procedure was used, crew’s should be able to identify their error, but this will depend on the level of distraction, available mental resource, and degree of surprise.
Rather than conclude that the crew ‘had no clue’ or ‘did not plan’, it might be better to consider and post, what might have been done or how we all might avoid such errors.
Latetonight, my post did not state nor I hope infer that crew’s should just watch the autopilot. Crews have to mentally engage with all of the aircraft systems with skills of awareness, understanding, planning, thinking ahead, and most important learning about themselves and the aircraft.