Double Screw-Up
Is my understanding correct? You were the PNF? You were giving someone a line check? You allowed a guy to perform an unspooled landing?
Is my understanding correct?
Not only should the student have been busted, but you should have been busted as well!
Whatever your SOPs dictate, you should have seen to it that they were enforced. For example, a simple callout, "We are unstabilized! Go around!" would have been the required action on your part. If the trainee failed to perform a go around at that point, you should have taken control (become the PF...and the trainee become the PNF) and performed the go around.
As an insturctor, you MUST drill into these guys' heads that, most of the time, a botched approach is not the fault of the flying pilot. And, as such, the appropriate action...the professional action...is to go around! To do so is the professional thing to do. To continue in attempts to salvage the approach is poor airmanship.
I'm surprised the FAA sat there an allowed you guys to perform an unspooled approach! I'm also surprised that your check airman certification has not been suspended.
Gentlemen: A go around is a "Get Out of Jail Free" card. Use it when you need it!!!!
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