Originally Posted by
dayzel87
Same here, I'd like to think it would be extremely unlikely you would get away with that at my airline either.
I found a lot of my time instructing ab-initio students was teaching them how & when to put their hands and when/where to look. It takes a little bit of time to get comfortable, but eventually you look at the student a lot and can pick up most root causes of why they are doing something wrong.
When I was teaching instructors, I'd get them to look at me a lot when trying to discover the root cause of errors. In the sim, these kinds of copilot shenanigans should be caught by the instructor looking at the person being checked.
You can pick up all kinds of things like making sure they transition to instruments very early during an instrument/night takeoff instead of rotating visually and waiting till they are lost before looking down.