CX C&T is 'something else' BUT they appear to have a low accident and incident rate.
That is very true. Maybe this is why management sticks with the current formula. It produces the quality of captain's that they want.
And I would agree that our captains do the job well. I have only flown with 2 guys I have thought not up to the job.
and then for the command course he is expected to be able to pull it all together with absolutely no heads up on what is coming.
I agree with this as well.
In all my sims, I have yet to see another pilot with a methodical decision making process which can be applied to most scenarioas. And a couple of times I have been criticized for using mine... because it slows down the session. Even though my process takes about 2 minutes to do (assuming it doesn't pick up any problems).
Negative training right from day 1, because as 9024 says, we know the scenario before walking in, and are expected to rush through it, ticking boxes as we go, with no thought to any methodology involved.