Originally Posted by
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It’s the continuity of knowledge that needs to be passed on.Some pilots employed by the airlines have never been to Cairns before they joined,so they have no knowledge of the terrain,let alone the 32 approach.Then you have the 35 CBR terrain.Remember the QF terrain incident a few years ago?The DME arrival into LST from SYD is another example.There would be other examples and they need to be part of a cyclical program,not practiced EVERY sim.There are too many “children of the magenta” out there.The FMC is only as good as it is fed and CHECKED.
Indeed. If the children of the magenta were occasionally required to fly a few gnarly 2D approaches the old way, situational awareness would be raised. Maybe they would eventually get ahead of the FMS when using it, instead of blindly following a mile behind it, trusting its electronic brain to keep them safe. Do any sim sessions include spurious navigation data, short of obvious total systems failures?
I have actually seen pilots program the FMS to fly a visual circuit on a clear day. It's not surprising that situational awareness is disappearing.