Following on you have to remember that Eagle fly to a lot of places where there are only NDB app's and some of them can get quite dirty especially on a dark winters night, No A/Pilot to help out.
Eagle know from past experince that just cos someone rocks up with a Instrument rating dosen't mean they can fly IFR, when I was training there years ago it staggered me the amount of basic IFR skills that "some" people didn't have when they turned up, couldn't work out descends, dist around arc's, Hdg bug use, procedual rules, drift allowances/corrections so chucking them in a sim for a quick strop is a good idea and will probably save them some cash in the long run. (and the training cptns hair!!)
On the old metro you could join the ILS on Barbers Pole
(246kts) and be configured by 1500ft or be BP to 5-6nm on a visual app straight in..
Joining downwind at 10,000ft and flying a normal circuit to Ldg was another cool trick.
