Beagle - The IRT is a procedural test to a set standard. It should not be a capacity test of high workload environments.
A good ZFT sim is the perfect place for this. Our sim is far harder to fly than the a/c, and I do not consider an IMC EFATO in the sim to be "Dumming down". Perhaps you would like to come and try one, I can promise you everyone on our fleet hates them, as the sim is very twitchy. It makes you follow the correct techniques, or it will bite you.
Line training should introduce high workload destinations, with good supervision.
I agree that a degree of training in the a/c is essential, but I believe we would be wasting a huge amount of a tight budget if we did not utilise the sim fully.
Last edited by P-T-Gamekeeper; 13th Jan 2005 at 17:28.