Originally Posted by A37
One thing I cannot understand is why instructors say "close your eyes while I put you in a UA, then recover" There is no way a pilot is flogging around in an aeroplane with closed eyes and so that practice is unrealistic.
- I am not bothered by this. The point I am making is that a UA nearly always comes as a complete 'surprise' to the pilots - often by an unexpected dumping of the warm and cuddly automatics - and how they got there, while of use, is not so important as how they get out of it - so, closing eyes in a way simulates ARRIVING in a UA and not really knowing how you got there, which in all probability was not deliberate.
In terms of simulation, I would have thought there was some merit in having the ability to 'throw' the instruments into a UA at the press of a button without having to 'manoeuvre' the sim, somewhat along the lines of being able to introduce a gentle, subtle departure of PF's attitude indicator.