Do our (retired?) trainers on this thread now regret all the SIM time spent droning around on LOFT exercises.How many pilots have been offered the option of practicing a manoeuvre;"anything you like,but of course it will be assessed" Er,no thanks.....?
dash6, don't blame it all on the trainers who are part of the orchestra but not the conductor! Training courses and syllabi are usually drawn up by the higher echelons of management.
You seem to have a somewhat jaundiced view. Certainly all the trainees I dealt with were often given the opportunity to practise manoeuvres of their own selection
when time permitted after the mandatory items had been completed. And certainly in my case such manoeuvres were
not assessed.
Believe it or not but quite a few of us trainers did the job because we genuinely wanted to see our fellow colleagues reach the highest standards possible in a friendly and helpful environment.