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Old 1st March 2010 | 11:45
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Centaurus
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lease people lets share some loft scenaros or training or recurrent syllabus
Depends if you are playing with your Microsoft PC or wishing to undergo serious training in a full motion flight simulator. LOFT is fine at home on your PC where you can invent mind-boggling scenarios for fun. Personally I prefer feet up on a Saturday night and watch The Bill.

On the other hand, if you have access to a real full motion simulator, then rather than waste time on autopilot "managing" the above mind boggling scenarios, the priority should be to improve your hand flying and raw data skills. Once you can confidently fly your aircraft without using the automatics as a crutch, only then can you afford the luxury of plugging in the automatics and watch the magic boxes at work while you "manage" things.

In view of ever increasing official evidence that loss of control (pilot error for want of being politically incorrect) is now the latest major cause of accidents, then throw caution to the winds and work up some sweat with practice ILS with 35 knot crosswind landings on limiting length runways, instrument let downs on standby navigation and flight instruments, stall recovery and unusual attitude recovery at 37,000ft.

Have a go at low level stall recovery below 1000 ft from autopilot coupled approach, one engine circling approaches, emergency descents clean or gear down low speed configuration, black hole approaches with no glide slope guidance, all flaps up landings on limiting length, slippery runway max performance braking short runway, slippery runway cross wind landings where sliding sideways may require judicious operation of brakes and reverse.
Loss of all engines has occurred in the past, so try a dead stick descent from 20,000 ft and land.
This is the stuff of real flying skill and far better for your confidence than a plethora of unlikely multiple double jeopardy scenarios in a LOFT.
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