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However, the lesson of training and experience is never more apparent than in the simulator. On occasion, we have had some cocky 25 year old SPIFR guy come into the airline who thinks he knows everything. In the second or third sim detail, we would "fail" the captain with a simulated heart attack and see how he coped. Fine, initially, as he has an autopilot and most modern jet aircraft are pretty easy to fly single pilot.
Now start loading him up with failures. Start with the autopilot, then maybe an engine or a hydraulic system. Not long before our hero is sweating.
To cut a long story short, they all crashed in the sim, and often it didn't take many failures before they lost the plot.
The same held true of ex-military fast jet people, who have a similarly high opinion of themselves and who also proved remarkably fallable in the sim.
Demoralising trainees has no place in training pilots.
As training pilot your are there to training people, not to show everyone that you are the master of all. To build their skills up, to arm them with techniques on how to get through situations.
Its people who think training regimes like the one you have quoted which CASA is trying to get rid of, numerous accidents have happened when check & training captains try and show how smart they are. One of the reasons why future C&T pilots will have to have done an instructors course prior to get a C&T delegation.
That training sequence on face value shows total ignorance for the principle and methods of instruction. How did you brief the student before the event, what techniques did you provide the student to deal with the event? What did you tell the student you were assessing? How where you taking to the student from the known parts of the operation to the unknown?
For example, did you provide a plan for them, e.g. first aid, cabin crew assistance, secure the pilot, seek assistance from other crew members/ATC etc?
Could be a good CRM training scenario if instructors went in there with the attitude or providing the student sills, and the practice the skills. The tone of your post is that you are setting them up for only one outcome...failure which is unacceptable.
