Originally Posted by
lomapaseo
Don't blame it on the regulators, it's the operators who have to pay for the off-line testing that count the stats to the nearest decmil
But the regulators have to approve the operators simulator syllabus. If they mandate a condition must be part of the syllabus, the operator has no choice (engine failure at V1 being an example). With rare exception, the regulators won't mandate training for anything that happens less than once per 10 million flights (ran into that on another issue - it's not
that hard to control but the regulators said it was catastrophic because they don't train for it - we said so train for it - they said it doesn't happen often enough to justify the simulator time....)
BTW, an ocean ditching would be easier to 'get right' than a dead stick on a runway since when ditching you basically have an infinite runway length and don't need to worry about getting the touchdown point right. But the sea conditions make the ditching less likely to be successful.