Originally Posted by
Smooth Airperator
No, this isn't the stuff nightmares are made out of. This is a regular scenario on sim checks in China for expat pilots. This is not something serious companies practice in the sim as part of the initial training or any particular LOE session and my only guess is that the Chinese pain masters want to assess stick/rudder skills with the aircraft in Direct Law (after gear down).
A lot of the newer sims are twitchy beasts compared to the real aircraft even in Normal Law and so I seriously doubt any A320 simulator is going to display accurate behaviour when being manually handled by the pilot in this scenario.
My question is, how would YOU expect the aircraft to behave on approach, particularly in terms of airspeed each time there is a destabilising gust? How would you handle it? I appreciate, it's a completely stupid scenario that has never happened in the history of aviation. Guesses are welcome!
Thanks
I'm in! when's the next flight to "Not China"..??