I keep saying that there are only 2 things that regularly make it into the typical pilot training curriculum - for either training or testing … first, those things that airline management believes will save money (and that may include eliminating things from training curriculums) and second … those things that are mandated by the regulator.
If one presumes that the regulator’s personnel are, in fact, knowledgeable about training / testing issues, why is it that the regulations are not more packed with requirements for training / testing on tasks that mean something to competent pilots? Could it be that decision making regulators are listening to those airline managers who regularly compliment those higher placed regulators for their knowledge and professionalism, all while ensuring that those regulators take every opportunity to reduce the cost-generating time requirements for that training / testing of crewmembers?