Careful Toolish you don't end up looking foolish.
I've been following this thread for awhile now and I think I can see where old Max is headed.
After 62 sectors you end up with a Line competent pilot, and so you should!
However ,what is a simulator after all?
It's a training tool used to expose pilots to situations and aircraft configurations and hopefully teach and equip them to handle non normal situations if they should ,god forbid, happen to experience such events on the line.
16 hrs sim training ,that = 4 sims.Can I assume that includes a sim check?
That leaves 12hrs of training = 3 sims.If not then 16 hrs / 4 sims is still not much time to cover electric non normals, hydraulic non normals, Flight control non normals ,practise NDB approaches, VOR approaches, ILS approaches, Engine out take offs and landings, Engine out handling , upper airwork, etc, etc.What if a recruit needs to repeat an exercise or needs more training to achieve a pass does he get charged more?
Is the reason limited Simulator time is allocated, in order to achieve an endorsement cost that was not too expensive? The old supply and demand conundrum?
Is this what Old Max was hinting at when he first said" training to a standard not to a cost?"
I don't know? Can anyone enlighten me please.