Prior to conducting EFATO exercises in the real aircraft, how about the pilots be made to sit and watch that EMB120 animation a few times over?
Imagine if somebody had walked into that Air North briefing room just as those pilots were preparing to go out to the aircraft and said something like:
"Hey guys, don't you forget about VMCA now - it's a dangerous thing that VMCA - make sure you keep that airspeed comfortably above VMCA."
What would the reaction by those pilots have been? Their immediate reaction would probably be to look at the speaker with some bewilderment that he is bringing up something so basic.
Then they would probably say something like:
"Yeah ... don't you worry about that ... we've been instructors and training captains for a long time now ... we know all about VMCA ... "
Last edited by FGD135; 25th Feb 2012 at 11:33.