Is there so little to do during an engine failure at rotation, or when the plane first leaves the ground, that much of this knowledge actually helps the pilot fly the plane as required?
Please don't misunderstand my questions.
Never mind a higher than normal engine failure clean-up altitude or the quick left turn needed above runway 36 at DCA (Washington, D.C.).
Why can't the "authorities" in those foregn lands leave the runway/clearway/ and (plus met. theory) engineering up to the designers-and allow pilots to just learn what they need to understand aircraft systems, procedures, how air traffic works and procedures for a given airplane type, learn to coordinate, keep track of what they should do, in order to safely FLY the plane? Isn't there enough to keep new, or even more experienced pilots busy?
Why must the basic ratings resemble theoretical university courses?
It takes little to baffle me (just an unwashed 'colonial' who is not among the best, but has flown multi-turbine fixed-wing since '79), as usual.