Sorry, trying to clarify but there is too much to tell for a full picture. In a B737 you are not allowed to do most maneuvers you do when flying a small plane o

Sorry, trying to clarify but there is too much to tell for a full picture. In a B737 you are not allowed to do most maneuvers you do when flying a small plane or a fighter; not necessarily acrobatics, but even more basic things like stalls, spins, side slips or flying without engines, which is something I regularly do to maintain my proficiency. That means 10,000 hours of limited, routine flying does not make a lot of difference, especially when you get into an incident that is outside of the routine. Good pilots vs bad pilots: some pilots that I know can fly visual without any instruments, knowing the plane and feeling the plane. Many others are barely flying straight if you mask their artificial horizon and VSI.