During my rather long career flying stuff some of my most enjoyable times were doing PBY type ratings and I never had an airline pilot who was not a pleasure to fly with.
They all quickly realized that it was really fun to actually fly an airplane again and once they rid their brains of SOP's to rely on and re-learned the simple basics of airplane handling they all turned out to be really good hands and feet pilots,
They could then go back to their big aluminum zoom tubes with all the magic buttons and had no trouble readjusting to operating their machines....because they had the confidence of knowing they had re-learned how to fly, not just operate an airplane.
