Originally Posted by
john_tullamarine
multiple failures are statistically irrelevant and a waste of sim time
I can see an argument if the user is paying personally .. however, with an appropriate attitude all round there is much pilot development value in putting together the more unusual and higher workload scenario ...
John, I must disagree with you. Routinely, incidents (and some accidents) occur because crews do not deal competently with straightforward isolated problems, not because two or more things go wrong simultaneously. The best value training is achieved by the practising of realistic scenarios, and an able instructor is able to vary the workload without introducing unrealistic multiple problems.
Yes, it can be very interesting to do 'old-fashioned' sim exercises - I was in the box not long ago with an experienced TRE colleague, we were being 'checked' by a company for whom we might have done some flying, but, in the end, did not. It was one of those silly details with mutliple failures, which we worked our way through with good humour. It delievered no training value at all.