Non PC, I agree that raw data flying helps build the skills required monitoring.
Re sim; an interesting observation, but what appears to be ineffective monitoring could also indicate a weakness in the principle of monitoring or in understanding of how it should be applied.
No technical system would use a lower integrity system to monitor a higher one – you would not use a Cat 1 AP to monitor a Cat 3 system. Whilst comparing pilots to machines might be incorrect, why then do we use the less experienced crew member as a monitor?
We need to self-monitor – another source of weakness, but this is more likely constrained by workload, but so too for the PM in todays SOP dominant operations. More time is spent comparing the perceived situation with that expected in an SOP, with little thought as to actual (real) situation – our minds are becoming synthetic.
Children of the Magenta Line targeted a specific operator and certain situations; the click-click slogan is good, but where is the explanation how you determine when a click-click situation arises, and how is this identified – awareness, raw data; plane, path, people.