Scan: inside, outside, inside, outside, rinse and repeat ...
Since the thread highlights training deficiencies, I'd like to highlight the above comment as something that lends itself to very little. I'm not having a pop at the poster, however I'm having pop at the commentary which I have experienced from GA right across to simulator and line training in a commercial jet. I've heard it bellowed by line trainers and TRI/TREs for years. Having instructed myself, both in GA and in the simulator of a medium jet transport I have come to the conclusion that the pattering of 'outside, inside' means shag all to bloggs who, in general, hasn't the foggiest what he's meant to be scanning. It's one of these terms that are banded about at a critical flight phase when trainee capacity is close to if not at it's edge. I've even witnessed an instructor being asked what he meant by his 'outside, inside' repeat to fade during an IPC debrief. The answer was rewarded with the most staggering amount of B.S. I have ever heard in aviation training.