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Old 25th Apr 2010, 11:53
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Huck
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We've been shown that sequence of pictures for about 6 months now in recurrent training.

Afterward, emphasis in the sim was on bounce recovery. They bring you in to short final, VFR, then "freeze" you in space right over the numbers, with the aircraft still flying, just stopped in place. Then they let you play around with pitch until you can identify and hold 7.5 degrees by external references only.

The bounce drill, therefore, is just to maintain 7.5 and add power to go around. They had an interesting exercise to drive this home: they gave me a VFR landing, then ASKED me to bounce it - see how many touch-and-goes I could make on the length of the runway, all while holding 7.5 pitch. I got three - supposedly the record is eleven.....

Yes, there has been a fundamental change in training. Yes, the new guy will probably make alot of changes. Narita was one hell of a wake up call.
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