Originally Posted by
Bob Viking
Finally I have to question (as I did when I worked there) the logic of a 2014 decision to cease practicing emergencies airborne. In the wake of a Cormorant accident where switches were inadvertently moved during a practice which resulted in a crash, all emergencies training was confined to simulators.
I cannot help but think that Canadian pilots will be more prone to the startle instinct as a result of this decision.
BV
Hi Bob, you are bang on about the "wisdom" of sim only training. The generals are in love with it since once installed it saves $$ and supposedly "manages risk". At the ab initio level you need all the hands and feet you can get. Even pattern work builds airmanship and 'actually doing it' where ATC is real not simulated.
Sims are great but they are training devices and since they are limited in number a script is written and chugs along at a set speed at 1 G. There is no hot or cold cockpit or real vibration or Farmer John popping up on the tower freq and blabbing on for 90 seconds while you are short final without a landing clearance and have to GA.
I remember doing my first PFL in CYMJ on a solo. What a confidence builder. We did away with student mut's in CYPG and airborne SE work and and and. It's dumbed down and all in the sims now. It's showing.
WRT this CYKA crash.....is training a factor? I'll wait for the FSR.