CRAB
STUDENT-01 - gets a comprehensive brief on TR malfunctions, including symptoms, diagnosis, considerations and procedures backed up with the essential safety brief. Has a coffee, goes flying, sees an expert demo, has his own goes at the exercise during which the instructor encourages him to recall elements of the brief where necessary to improve his performance.
STUDENT-02 - receives a brief on VOR navigation as he has asked for, receives no brief on the TR malfunction, has a coffee, goes flying and struggles a bit with the VOR. Instructor thinks, I know we will do something different (for all the good reasons and is a good thing to do if the current exercise is not progressing without a rebriefing) however the exercise the FI chooses just bombs with the student from the outset, so much so he fails to even realise the intention behind the instructor placing his feet on the pedals. Actually asks him to remove them. In the dynamic environment of an approach then loses the plot and can't remember how to deal with the malfunction.
THE QUESTION FOR YOU setting aside the good intentions of the Instructor. DO you believe if Student-02 had the brief that Student-01 received, he would have gained more or less for the money he spent on his flying?
Finally, if you truly believe that every experienced pilot should be capable of managing a TR malfunction without briefing and practice beforehand, can you please explain why the Authority specify this briefing and training in the OPC cycle.
Bear in mind, before you answer, that the poor PPL is not afforded this training before his LPC unless he is wise enough to ask and pay for it.
Sadly if he asked you, or worse, was dumb enough just to pay you, he might not get a brief and in your own time you will tut tut at his **** performance and be back ranting here about how all pilots shall manage these malfunctions without briefing or training and this why we are all crashing.
In a rather clumsy roundabout way you have accidentally described exactly WHAT is wrong in the GA world that leads to lack of training and accidents.
Try preaching "oh yes, you need frequent recurrent training just to stay competent" instead of trying to tell us that he should not need training cos he should be able to do all the malfunctions otherwise what happens if the enemy appear and start shooting at him in a cloud, up on a Sunday, and he will die.
If you really are a great Instructor you should be promoting the very need for your existence.
Last edited by DOUBLE BOGEY; 25th Jan 2017 at 18:00.