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Old 5th Jul 2015, 10:58
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Whopity
 
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About a year ago I did refresher training for a former AFI who had spent the last 20 years teaching on the Vigilant. As a RAF trained instructor they work to a very standardised regeme, it is different to the many methods you will see in the civil world. Rather than let the candidate struggle trying to remember back to SEP or even Group A days, which will always be clouded by their more recent experience, simply demonstrate what you would expect to see, then let them do it. In most cases they will get it right first time.

I recall a former A Cat Britannia Capt who came to the C130 as a co-pilot. During a post flight debrief from a rather young inexperienced Herc Capt, he was told that he displayed no Captaincy potential at all!
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