Thank you Dan...
your concerns and assumptions are well founded.
I was
hoping to hear that "no, the sims are much better than you remember them and pilots today are routinely shown much more realistic visual segment displays" !
Combined with the discussion on current training issues in another thread, not a happy scenario. The technology is clearly much better but much of the industry is not making best use of it under cost pressure, and political pressures on the regulators mean they are pretty much impotent. Worrying...