I must admit I was quite lucky and my intial type rating instructor was a bit of a star.
He gave a couple of us fresh meat FO's a couple of "sim calibration" sessions.
In these sessions we got to try the none SOP methods and pretty much proved that the SOP's were the best method of dealing with certain situations even though natural instinct said you either had to deal with it sooner or by a different method.
His training has proved invaluable over the years.
And to be honest I have had an injector pipe come loose on a garrett TP331. Fuel was pissing out of the hot section on shutdown big puddle of it at the bottom and loads of white vapour coming out of any vent it could find. Also had a hydralic pump "blow" and dump the whole of the hydralic tank into the hot section as well. Don't know if I was just lucky but no fire.
Last edited by mad_jock; 18th Dec 2012 at 12:03.