This was part of the standard training process that has served all the airlines that use the 777 well for the last eighteen years. The pilot had only 43 hours of flight time on the 777 and was obviously trying to get more. One other thing, of the five or ten hours of flying credit that he (or she) would have gotten for this flight only five or ten minutes is part of the landing process and the most critical part of that only accounts for about thirty seconds.
My favorite was the reporting the the 777 decented at 1400 FEET PER SECOND !!!!! (that’s something like 84000 ft per min ... faster that the Space Shuttle)
He has also flown the particular air plane only 9 times according to reports
This is all fine and good but he has never flown in to the San Francisco airport with the particular type of airplane and according to reports that I heard the San Francisco airport is not easy to land in because of the location or something like that