. These are CASA mandated policy. It does not prepare you for situations where control difficulties in the air may not allow the luxury of reading an emergency checklist from a book.
Instructors should not only keep this in mind when training ab-initio student pilots, but encourage students to read ATSB reports and learn from them. After all, they are free..[/QUOTE]
It's a while back a Swiss Air DC10 came to grief after an on board fire off the Canadian east coast. IIRC is was posited that if the crew had diverted their attention from the checklist which took at least 20 minutes to getting the aircraft on the ground there was a theoretical chance they may have made Halifax.