Hotel Tango, again, I do not buy or accept that line of reasoning! If you are qualified on type, irregardless of hours, you should be able to perform any normal maneuver on that type.
"act700, I understand and agree with you up to a point. However, GA's are not all that frequent. So one may ponder whether said Captain had, in those 800 hours on the B744, ever experienced a GA and (again specifically on the B744) what sort of training for such an event had the airline given him"