Hello All,
This is very dissapointinting to read. Why do I write this? Simple. I am a checkpilot at my company and my job is very simple.... I verify that professional pilots understand procedures, policy, and SOP's. I watch as they apply the skill and knowledge towards normal and "realistic" abnormal events. Why someone who is a subject matter expert... the "checkpilot".... feels they have to flex their knowledge is just fatiguing.
The job of the checkpilot is to ensure that knowledge has been transferred from the training enviorment to the line enviorment.
All I can recommend is that, you as the pilot, take control of your training enviorment and ask the simple question...why are we doing this and how does this apply to the real world. Union pilots can push this through their traing committees and non-union will have to be just as assertive but with absolute respect. The latter sucks but is required to hold the title professional pilot.
Just a thought.