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Profile descent from cruise altitude to touch-down using a DME v Altitude profile in varying winds. This is done by hand flying on instruments without automatics. This is part of line training - or should be. Why waste time in the sim practicing something that can be done on normal ops?
Certainly never seen this in line training where the accent is always on VNAV and LNAV with the autopilot and autothrottles all doing their stuff. Few captains will permit descents DME v Altitude probably because they themselves have forgotten how to do so.
Most sims are so poor at modelling crosswind behaviour that this is not of great benefit in the sim.
Try not to generalise too much (Most Sims etc) Properly maintained Level D (full flight zero flight time) simulators are required to meet certain fidelity standards. That includes crosswind limit fidelity. If not then the simulator needs looking at. Certainly the 737 simulators I have operated in crosswinds are very close to the crosswind characteristics of the real aircraft.
I disagree with this being on the initial course, it is something to bring in once someone has time on type. Training for the day when you have a double engine failure and the captain is incapacitated seems to be a bit far fetched....
Agree that dual engine failure and simultaneous incapacitation is far fetched but unable to find any reference to this combination in the posts so far.
As far as waiting for time on type before practicing a dead stick landing. Would you also wait for time on type before practice incapacitation? No logic there. If type rating training includes loss of thrust on all engines and re-start doesn't work, it would seem a natural progression to manoeuver for a forced landing.