Shaggy Sheep Driver ....
You have it.
I recall a colleague once commenting that some of the old ( younger then than I am now ! ) Captains couldn't fly an ILS to save their lives, literally, but pop out of cloud too high, too fast, not configured and say " the runway's over there, Sir " ( never forgetting the Sir ! ) and they would straighten up and fly an immaculate visual approach to a perfect landing, whereas the young trainees we were instructing could fly an instrument approach - aka Microsoft Flight Simulator game to them - better than we ourselves ever could, or likely would, but pop out of cloud at minima and have to land a real aeroplane on the real earth, and they lost it. ( remember San Francisco last July ? )
Yes, some of them were well known Martinets, but to be fair, had I survived being shot at nightly with the shells coming through the cockpit, I think my attitude to "lesser" mortals might have been a little different ! Not excusing, but understanding, sort of.