Originally Posted by
FougaMagister
5/ To use a common comparison, would you let a surgeon that would only have practiced on simulators perform brain/heart surgery or any other difficult surgical procedure either on you or a loved one? Methinks not. Cheers
Doing a difficult and unfamiliar (lets make it long and tedious as well) procedure at 2am with poor instruments, bad light, a grumpy scrub-nurse, no backup and no back-out.
Ahhhhhhh! "Character building..." as one of my old chiefs used to say.
As Chuck Yeager says, you gotta be afraid to panic (you can puke AFTERWARDS)
No sim will ever teach you that - and if you can't do it then you shouldn't be doing it.