Near where I am based in China there is a mandatory pilot training facility for one of the major airlines. Pilots must train for one week every year in the simu

Near where I am based in China there is a mandatory pilot training facility for one of the major airlines. Pilots must train for one week every year in the simulator. Once every month or two I run in to foreign pilots in town for this purpose. I met two recently and specifically asked them about the Lion Air event and their training for failures, based on the assumption that they must train for complete system failure. They said that in truth the probability of complete system failure is so low that completely manual training is now considered irrelevant to annual review and is not even performed. As an example, they said that the rudder of a typical plane has three redundant hydraulic systems, all of which are routed differently through the airframe and all of which would need to fail to lose control. In short, they have statistically more significant areas to train on, limited training time and budget, and it has been correspondingly deprioritized. This seems to be in direct contrast to boat sailing, where one of the most common and significant drills given to new sailors right across the world is learning to effectively steer a vessel using sail trim to compensate for a loss of rudder or rudder control.