I am all for you guys who say training needs to get better, but training only takes you half way. Experience is the other half, and according to TPROP, SIC is "captain in training".

There is a HUGE difference in reading something in a book (watching the captain) and actually doing something (making a real world decision with consequences).

Also, think about how many habits a person can pick up by watching someone. That Colgan captain had probably watch 100 captains talk up a storm on final approach, but should he have been doing that when shooting a night approach down to mins?