Originally Posted by
Check Airman
That’s a very easy problem to fix. The instructor just needs to say “CA, your decision will be for the FO to handle the ECAM on this one.”
At all the companies I’ve flown for, both pilots are assessed on handling non-normals, as PF and PM at each training event. I imagined that that was pretty standard.
Strangely, it is not the case at my company. So even if, as an instructor, I often offer or even make time for the Fo to get a chance to practice his/her ecam skills, it is not what is normally done. Therefore, (one could say, logically,) FO's are usually weaker at ECAM management.