Earthmover
I LOATHE the principle that I now have sit there with my mouth shut. Make cock-up? - Fail, tick the box.
How is it possible for a company to take a valuable member of staff (Cpt / FO) and put them through their six monthly check and yet risk them 'failing' because they have turned the Instructor into a Tester?
I was followign this thread with interest as I recall a similar one a couple of years ago and was recalling that one reported problem was with carriers insisting that automatics were used more in oder to save fuel and so forth.
After 27 years in commerce and govt, I thought that I had heard most of it but this new peice of information from Earthmover, really leaves me aghast.