Originally Posted by
higthepig
Sounds like a Malaysian student on my course, lovely guy, but a complete hazard to all in the Sims as he had magnetic aircraft and no English without 5 minutes thinking time. He passed with flying colours, which was obviously and absolutely nothing to with the sale of Hawks to the Malaysian Air Force at the time......
Reminds me of a story of a friend who was a training and check pilot for a regional airline flying Boeing 737's. As part of a government "help those poor people in Africa program" they contracted with the airline to provide a free 737 type rating to some pilots from am African country. He was told that they were fully trained and ready to do the type course. He gets them for the sim after a disastrous ground school in which it was made clear nobody could fail. First sim he decides to start out slow and set up the sim at altitude and in cruise and instructs the student to get comfortable flying straight and level before commencing maneuvering. The response from the student "which do you want first, sir"