Originally Posted by Forward Slip
During my sim training we were told to consider the safest place is for the passengers. As someone said earlier evacuation=injuries
Recent recurrent training had max gross weight abort for engine fire. Ask if outside observer could tell us what they see since we can't see the engine "Smoke everywhere, can't tell about any fire".
So we decide to evac. "Uh, no....." is the instructor's
opinion. Ok, then why not evac? "That's just the fire extinguisher cloud."
Ah, fire the bottles at significant speed, with headwind...and afterwards the tower observer several kilometers away see's lots of smoke but it isn't from a fire but just residual chemicals???
Talked with others and they agreed that given that scenario they'd take the injury risk of evacuating vs. the 'smoke' (chemicals or real fire...) being just smoke.
There are times to evacuate. Gearing all training scenarios to
not evauate will lead to problems someday. And having piss poor scenarios end up with the instructor pushing the 'do not evac' line could lead to a disaster someday.