Originally Posted by
pineteam
Totally agree with you Vilas. Unfortunately many instructors still love to ask these kind of questions like: How many memory items? What are they? Or like what is the max EGT for engine start? In my head I’m like: Just look at the EWD.
Asking what the memory items are is fair enough - we all need to know them and recall them at any time., so we must be able to recite them line by line if asked.
But as you say, pineteam; asking what the engine limitations are is no longer necessary, now that we have sophisticated displays that tell us, and ECAM that alerts us. One way to stop instructors doing this this is to find some obscure fact in the manuals, and innocently ask the instructor about it. Then see if they can answer.
I am still gobsmacked that the airlines of the OP did not mandate all the Airbus memory drills !! How on Earth would they have managed if a memory drill situation had arisen?