Originally Posted by
JimEli
you get what you pay for.
What's the saying, if you think training is expensive try having an accident, or, penny wise pound foolish. We had an oil company advisor who saw no value in sim training for the S-76, yet he attended yearly, when the company did relent it was once every two years, captains only, not co-pilots.
Gulli, the aircraft can have all the features in the world but unless you are using them on a regular basis you can't readily lay your hand to them, muscle memory, can recall trying to get the thing to couple for an ILS, took a while for the penny to drop. On the infrequent 412 trip always initially got caught out reaching for the heading knob where it was placed in the 76. Then again, was never the sharpest knife in the drawer.