Originally Posted by
Capt Fathom
That’s my point. A Sim exercise. You know it’s coming and you’ve gone through it the night before, verbatim.
Pull up to a stop and halfway through the drills the instructor says ‘Yep that’s great, let’s move on to the next lesson’.
Nothing like a real fire to ramp it up to the next level.
And one of the biggest problems with a Sim Exercise is the matrix, thanks CASA......
The sim is always trained to do an Evacuation, and never is a scenario given where a thought process developed of whether an evacuation should be done, or would it be better to keep the pax in their seats? The scenario is always created where the pilots MUST do an evacuation to tick the box in the matrix. So when it happens for real, and the crew have to actually consider what they are going to do, they haven't trained for any form of decision making during such an event where the adrenaline will be high. The sim events are just a case of playing it by numbers. Fire before V1, stop, Evacuate. So they are trained to be robots, which as this event has shown, may not result in the best handling of such an occurrence.