Pilots should be disqualified from certification if they bolo certain simulator tests.
That is what happens at U.S. based carriers. The pilots would get remedial training in a Level D simulator, then fly a re-test in the simulator. They may not be "de-certified", but they would not fly on the aircraft until they successfully fly a re-test in the simulator.
One can only guess what would happen at a "third world airline".
"Task saturation" is a canard imho.
I would have to respectfully disagree, based on personal experience. However, I most of the cases I observed, the pilot was low time, transitioning from the T-38 to the F-4.
The problem is that airline pilots are logging thousands of flight hours without ever flying the aircraft manually. Then, when a compound/complex emergency occurs, they don't know how to respond, especially if a quick response is required.
In the old days, in the Air Force (90’s), a LOT of the Sim time was devoted to various in flight emergencies. I wonder how true that is for current commercial Sim time.
I would agree on that point. I can appreciate a guy whose profession is to handle a firearm and spends prodigious time at the range not just firing, but scenarios. But I expect that of a pilot (simulator time) responsible for dozens, if not hundreds, of passengers...
Here’s what is also not discussed re this subject: The elimination of the position of ‘flight engineer’. The FE was responsible for all of the aircraft’s systems. The pilot and FO flew the damned plane.
Clearly there’s room for a few bucks more per ticket and design a systems engineer back into the cockpit.
We have decades more to go before we can rely upon computers for autonomy. If nothing else, that is the overarching lesson from all of this (plus trained pilots responsible for nothing else but flying the plane).