Not grumbling about the sim fella. I think it's really valuable and I'll take any opportunity.
I like you believe though that there's smarter ways of doing business than we are right now, especially given the lack of hours.
We could look at potentially having a smaller amount of airdrop currencies perhaps - just gravity and extracted perhaps and then a sim for the individual load emergencies as part of quart? Perhaps use the sim more for pilot airdrop?
Do we really need a night airdrop currency on a HUD aircraft?
Why do we need separate currencies for each different type of instrument approach?
Just a few thoughts - with less hours perhaps we should think less about the epic tick chase that keeping current has become and think more sensibly about relevancy, breadth and quality of training.
I have a vested interest in the future as I'd like to ensure that a sensible balance is struck between risk averse tick chasing and valuable training on a future shiny toy!
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