Well, if an instructor employed by me cut fuel as a means of generating a more realistic engine failure, I would
tell them not to do it again. Radical isn't it?
Why not fire them instantly?
- I used to do it myself as that's the way I was taught. Then I was educated properly, and now I don't. I'd like to offer the same opportunity to someone else.
- Less importantly for me, I would be opening myself to employment court claims, unless the Book of Rules specifically prohibited that particular behaviour.
And Joemas, I suggest you don't pull the mixture in a SE aircraft. You could argue forever that it's not more risky than anything else, but
if an accident did occur it would be very hard to defend. More so now that most manufacturers recommend against it. Just a pragmatic recommendation from someone who has done all sorts of silly things in the past through ignorance, but now knows better.
