Originally Posted by OK465
....but then I don't have three decades of writing FARs under my belt.
A 38 year old would have had to have started at age 8....so this is believable.
Hi OK465 – I’m presuming that, given the juxtaposition of the above posts, your comment here is likely in response to one of the 2 folks that I’ve ever put on “Ignore” in my tenure here. I am usually able to simply skip over the ramblings of those who bluster and boast (and almost without fail, do so in a most unpleasant way), but after an entire career of essentially having to treat those types with a level of respect they clearly don’t deserve, I’ve decided that, when I run across such childishness, rather than swallow such swill in the name of politeness, it’s far easier to take advantage of the facilities provided by the owners/operators of this forum and simply recognize such emptiness with the proper level of recognition … none at all … and that is most easily achieved through the Ignore feature. As I’ve said, many times on this forum, the material I post is the result of my background, education, training, and experience – and if I’m not sure of a comment, I have always acknowledged that fact within the post. Initially, I decided not to divulge my identity or my full background, primarily to keep my then-employer from having to defend something I said and, perhaps a bit more poignantly, to prevent them from becoming my former employer. At the present time, I have not seen any particular advantage in changing that position … as it forces me to rely solely on the weight of the argument itself rather than the “positional authority” some may try to ascribe to my thoughts. Suffice it to say that I often wish that I was as smart and as experienced today as some of those 38-year-olds believe they are today – when it only takes a modicum of awareness to know that the Dunning-Kruger effect (
Dunning?Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) remains “alive and well” in each of those cases. And ... should anyone have any specific question about simulation or the necessary requirements to have a simulator qualified, I'd be happy to attempt to provide an answer ... assuming, of course, that one of these "knowledgeable chaps" haven't already provided that answer ...
... and, in case it's necessary, THAT was the reason behind the reference to the ABX accident - in that the crew repeatedly used techniques and procedures they learned/practiced in their erroneously programmed simulator - and died in their airplane as a result.
Happy New Year!