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Old 6th October 2013 | 02:32
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A37575
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My check ride was in an Electra sim I had never flown with multiple approaches with one, two and three engines shut down. All to a missed approach except the last when at 200 ft another check airman pulled the fire handle on my only engine. This was with no visual.
My sympathies are with you. What a dreadful indictment on the poor quality of "check??" pilots in those days. That sort of disgraceful behaviour deserves the check pilots to be thrown out of the simulator and demoted to a desk job for a few years - then re-trained properly but this time as co-pilots only.

Reminded me of a story related to me by a former RAAF C130 Hercules pilot undergoing conversion on the first C130A simulator at RAAF base Richmond.

Similar scenario to that you described. The military check pilot failed multiple engines during ILS leaving one inboard going by the time they reached the outer marker. "What are you going to do, now" screamed the instructor" - himself only 30 years old so no grizzled veteran.

The pilot under training said "THIS is what I'm going to do now" and promptly rolled the Herc simulator inverted and went in like a bomb. The simulator popped lots of circuit breakers and it took the technicians a few hours to get it going again.

Simulator instructors and airline check captains often have someone else's career in their hands. There is still no shortage of clowns that abuse that power and who should never have been promoted into the job.

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