Yes PICUS.
So a cadet can join an airline from an integrated course, gets his log book signed as PICUS on every flight as this is what they are told to do by the authority, as Centy said boom 4-5 years later Captain - ZERO real command time.
PICUS would work if run properly and that is a company set procedure, where the Capt is trained for the role. However PICUS means that any input required negates that PICUS sector, back to the first paragraph it means pilots are flying around with not only no real command time but ZERO real PICUS time as well.
Modern aircraft are what saves the moment today, if we were still driving clocks and dials or even first gen airliners would it work? No chance.
Even now just google how many overruns and incidents in a certain part of the world.
No idea how previous cadetships worked but in the past you still needed that magic command time.
