Ok465
Perhaps some explanation. Just as Stalls must be experienced to familiarize the student with the feel of the a/c, so too must the a/c response to partial or no panel, and loss of various instrumentation be experienced.
I did Not mean to marginalize the crucial contribution of sim experience. Some AB initio must include actual flight in these domains.
Aren't we talking about lack of experiential hand flight? Try to teach a child to ride the bicycle with a sim. Never having experienced the actuals, to learn muscle memory, an adult with a PhD in Bicycle riding acquired in a simulator will not get how to ride.
Two critical cues needed to suss STALL in the A330 Are Buffet and Nose drop. Are these included in the type rating? In the aircraft?
If only to experience the docility of UAS in the air, this must be done on the natch. One cannot rue the loss of manual flight experience, and also say it is not crucial to experience it in abnormals?
If sim UAS is acceptable for the rating, perhaps an AoA gauge, Approach to STALL at altitude, and some other minimum considerations should be added to the platform?
Last edited by Lyman; 25th July 2012 at 16:28.