“Failing” someone during trading is a good measure of a company’s training standards and the trainers within. It happens, but normally this is for repetitive gross handling errors, diabolical CRM, dreadful preparation. But a “fail” for asking for the FD’s to be turned off? This speaks volumes. As has been pointed out already, the FD should not be followed for a recovery because it will not give any useful information. It would also be reasonable to question its validity following a stall recovery. The only issue I could see is do you actually need to turn the things off as it would be better to concentrate on the recovery rather than flick switches.
PM