A32575...... I agree, a very interesting post, and from the CRM point of veiw, inmy opinion, it was right to terminate the IR test on the grounds of CRM and operating outside of the SOPs, I'm not an IRE, but isn't covered in the IR renewal standards document. Of course what you could have done is to instruct the co-pilot by way of a note to be incapacitated. I presume a IR can include incapacitation of PNF, please enlighten us?
It must be diffucult to be a simulator examiner, with different SOPs and culturral aspects.
As to sidebar, quite right, SOPs are a big part of CRM, unless in the case of the A320 landing in the Hudson or the Sioux city DC10 where there was no SOP. I wonder how many airlines stress that SOPs are a big part of CRM, particulary where there may be cultural issues in CRM.
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