Training "Big" aircraft pilots in "little" planes...
Inspired by some drift from another thread, the topic is training big aircraft pilots in little planes. I see two distinct points of view, each with merit:
If a pilot is destined to fly big planes, could train in simulators and big aircraft only, as they really don't need to spend time on learning to fly light aircraft, they do need all the time they can get flying big.
Or,
They must fly light aircraft first, to develop the basic skills, which will extend onward to their big aircraft flying skills.
This is an A&CC topic, because it has ended up too often that a lack of very basic aircraft handling skills, usually associated with stalls or slow flight has resulted in a crash, which probably a light aircraft pilot would have been better able to handle, simply for more and more recent practice flying in that regime...
Thoughts?