5 But- and this all gets back to training- you have to know all this. Not look in manuals. It has to be in the core of your airplane skill base. Trained by the trainers. And if the trainers don’t have it ........
Years and years of drift towards ‘lean operations’ where training gets faster and shallower and faster and shallower as the decades slide by.
Why keep 10 sim sessions for a type rating when you can get away with 9 and collect a $10,000 KPI bonus?
Two years later........ why keep 9 sim sessions for a type rating when you can get away with 8 and collect a $15,000 KPI bonus?
Two years later.........why do 8 full flight sim sessions for a type rating when you can get away with 6 + 2 cheaper ‘motion off’ sessions and collect a $20,000 KPI bonus?