Originally Posted by
safetypee
Further insight to the limitations of human performance in surprising situations.
737 stall and recovery training after briefing, a situation which had clear indication and alerting of the malfunction, i.e. minimum need for situational assessment:
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All airline pilots agreed or strongly agreed that they were surprised by the surprise stall scenario. In that scenario, less than one quarter of the airline pilots strictly followed the proper stall recovery procedure on which they had been briefed.”
Hope that the FAA heed the results of their sponsored research.
https://www.faa.gov/pilots/training/...r_Training.pdf
Our training department has been jawboning for a couple of years about the need to incorporate "startle" training back into the sim but nothing on the horizon so far. There was a time when much of our sim training consisted of unannounced and unbriefed emergencies so you always had to be ready for anything. Nowadays everything goes by prebriefed scripts. No multiple emergencies and no real surprises. Is it any wonder then that folks are surprised when crews have trouble handling situations that don't follow the script?