Originally Posted by BenderRodriguez

My point was that captains cannot just be managers. They MUST maintain proficiency to (in my opinion) a high degree. Just being experienced doesn't mean anything if you don't put that experience to use. If your skills are so atrophied by going to the sim for your landings every 6 months (or whatever it is) what good is that experience? 4 guys with tons of time watched that airplane fly into the seawall in SFO. Skillset to hand fly a visual approach seemingly non existent. Relevant? I think so.