I presume you're joking that the 'old way' in the actual aeroplane was better!
In the old days how did you practice an electrical failure/fire?
In the sim training I've done we had actual smoke in the cockpit, which required going to emergency power then working through the restoration procedures in real time. That was followed by a diversion back to Singapore and a 02L ILS down to 200 DA on linited panel! With the RHS pilot holding a torch on my instruments so I could see what I was doing as his HSI etc were still failed and I had no lighting! Some of it, his HSI malfunction, was a sim glitch, but we got it on the ground in one piece and recieved a round of applause from the Fleet Captain. As I brought the aircraft to a halt on the runway I realised my heart was racing and my knees were shaking. I had been so engrossed I'd actually forgotten it was 'just' a simulation!
And 411a, given your obvious disdain for us young blokes we were both F/Os doing initial F28 type ratings, both initial jet as well.
There is simply NO BETTER way of training than in a full motion simulator!
And you get to roll it afterwards
Chuck.
[ 07 December 2001: Message edited by: Chimbu chuckles ]