Originally Posted by
SASless
Training and Sim Courses cannot replicate or identify every possible malfunction or emergency that might be encountered but I would think ECL's might have a role to play in certain situations and when I saw the word. "never"....it made me wonder why the Pilots at said that.
The topic came up because our DER test pilot thought it was strange to see the ECL left in FLIGHT position and aren't used at all in normal operation. The two knobs on the lower console are used instead.