Training Cruelty HUMOUR
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Training Cruelty HUMOUR
Definition of training cruelty:
Place a competent crew in the simulator for a trip to an oil rig.
.Make the weather night IMC but nothing dramatic. ( 1000 OVC vis 4 miles tops 2000 clear above with sparkling stars and unlimited vis. Winds 10 no gusts..just a fine night for flying. ) No Traffic, Competent, helpful ATC and rig radio operators who don’t say much.
FAIL NOTHING on the entire trip out and back.
In about 20 minutes they will be nervous, paranoid wrecks trying to figure out what is wrong that they have missed.
Sometimes this can lead to some interesting crew actions that actually cause problems. IE: Missed items on checklists and approach and landing briefs, crew distraction, self doubt, fixation on little things, distractions like continual checking the CB panels for a popped CB or testing the caution panel warning lights every few minutes…digging down into the diagnostic pages, checking the FMS over and over, loss of situational awareness ect. “Self induced Spla****us”.
[ Kinda like when the better half says “There’s nothing wrong!”..You know you have done something very wrong and desperately try to figure out what it is. ]
Place a competent crew in the simulator for a trip to an oil rig.
.Make the weather night IMC but nothing dramatic. ( 1000 OVC vis 4 miles tops 2000 clear above with sparkling stars and unlimited vis. Winds 10 no gusts..just a fine night for flying. ) No Traffic, Competent, helpful ATC and rig radio operators who don’t say much.
FAIL NOTHING on the entire trip out and back.
In about 20 minutes they will be nervous, paranoid wrecks trying to figure out what is wrong that they have missed.
Sometimes this can lead to some interesting crew actions that actually cause problems. IE: Missed items on checklists and approach and landing briefs, crew distraction, self doubt, fixation on little things, distractions like continual checking the CB panels for a popped CB or testing the caution panel warning lights every few minutes…digging down into the diagnostic pages, checking the FMS over and over, loss of situational awareness ect. “Self induced Spla****us”.
[ Kinda like when the better half says “There’s nothing wrong!”..You know you have done something very wrong and desperately try to figure out what it is. ]
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paranoid wrecks trying to figure out what is wrong that they have missed
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Sounds like a Sim Instructor after my own Heart!
There were some other "tricks" that could be played that were useful.
In my Sim if you failed to brief the Missed Approach Procedure as part of the Approach Brief.....you could count on the Airport having been kidnapped by Aliens from Outer Space.
During Unusual Attitudes (the old heads down/eyes closed silliness). all I did was turn your Attitude Indicator off about ten degrees in bank.....then made the usual wonky flying thing and then gave the controls back to the pilot.
Three Attitude Indicators and not very many folks polled the Jury and kept fighting for straight ad level. Some never figured it out.
There were some other "tricks" that could be played that were useful.
In my Sim if you failed to brief the Missed Approach Procedure as part of the Approach Brief.....you could count on the Airport having been kidnapped by Aliens from Outer Space.
During Unusual Attitudes (the old heads down/eyes closed silliness). all I did was turn your Attitude Indicator off about ten degrees in bank.....then made the usual wonky flying thing and then gave the controls back to the pilot.
Three Attitude Indicators and not very many folks polled the Jury and kept fighting for straight ad level. Some never figured it out.
Fail one and then have a fire in the remaining - results may vary considerably.
Sounds like a Sim Instructor after my own Heart!
There were some other "tricks" that could be played that were useful.
In my Sim if you failed to brief the Missed Approach Procedure as part of the Approach Brief.....you could count on the Airport having been kidnapped by Aliens from Outer Space.
During Unusual Attitudes (the old heads down/eyes closed silliness). all I did was turn your Attitude Indicator off about ten degrees in bank.....then made the usual wonky flying thing and then gave the controls back to the pilot.
Three Attitude Indicators and not very many folks polled the Jury and kept fighting for straight ad level. Some never figured it out.
There were some other "tricks" that could be played that were useful.
In my Sim if you failed to brief the Missed Approach Procedure as part of the Approach Brief.....you could count on the Airport having been kidnapped by Aliens from Outer Space.
During Unusual Attitudes (the old heads down/eyes closed silliness). all I did was turn your Attitude Indicator off about ten degrees in bank.....then made the usual wonky flying thing and then gave the controls back to the pilot.
Three Attitude Indicators and not very many folks polled the Jury and kept fighting for straight ad level. Some never figured it out.
In the real aircraft. 
Avoid imitations
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I once gave an sim student and engine fire warning on the downwind leg of a circuit, which I had decided to be spurious - no other symptoms. All I expected him to do was to cancel the warning and carry on.
However….without checking for any other signs of fire, as the checklist required (actually should have been a memory item), the trainee flared very hard and very rapidly lowered the lever so that he backed both engines right off. He then convinced himself that both engines had failed, so he immediately shut them both down…..and stuffed up the engine off landing in a big way. He would have died! Worryingly, he was an experienced pilot on the type and a second or third tourist and had a very high opinion of his own ability. The “record” facility of the sim hopefully made him see otherwise.
Another student, given the same situation, spent so much time trying to diagnose the fault and so little flying the aircraft that he began a slow descent then flew into the ground at the end of the downwind leg. Again the record/playback facility was useful to show him the error of his ways.
However….without checking for any other signs of fire, as the checklist required (actually should have been a memory item), the trainee flared very hard and very rapidly lowered the lever so that he backed both engines right off. He then convinced himself that both engines had failed, so he immediately shut them both down…..and stuffed up the engine off landing in a big way. He would have died! Worryingly, he was an experienced pilot on the type and a second or third tourist and had a very high opinion of his own ability. The “record” facility of the sim hopefully made him see otherwise.
Another student, given the same situation, spent so much time trying to diagnose the fault and so little flying the aircraft that he began a slow descent then flew into the ground at the end of the downwind leg. Again the record/playback facility was useful to show him the error of his ways.
Avoid imitations
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A certain simulator course (or most of them) were convinced that they should wear disposable shower caps during their sim sorties, due to a very virulent (but totally spurious ) ear infection outbreak, which could allegedly be passed via headsets
) ear infection outbreak, which could allegedly be passed via headsets
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1995 IFR Sim ride at Rucker with a DAC, scenario was take the ATC CO from Benning to Rucker, the instructor did the Lost Comm situation.
Discussed the action we needed to complete then the DAC pulls out his cell phone (brick size at that time) and calls the console stating the ATC CO gave him the phone number and said the console better give us clearance to land. SIM were of motion and we were told to get the F out of the box.
Blackhawk sim I would give the crew a fuel filter light usually after the fuel burn was calculated shortly after TO.
That would be the only malfunction given as the crews debated VNE vs best endurance, continue on the cross country VIP transport to flaming out on an ILS do to fuel starvation do to crossfeed usage.
debriefs were fun
1995 IFR Sim ride at Rucker with a DAC, scenario was take the ATC CO from Benning to Rucker, the instructor did the Lost Comm situation.
Discussed the action we needed to complete then the DAC pulls out his cell phone (brick size at that time) and calls the console stating the ATC CO gave him the phone number and said the console better give us clearance to land. SIM were of motion and we were told to get the F out of the box.
Blackhawk sim I would give the crew a fuel filter light usually after the fuel burn was calculated shortly after TO.
That would be the only malfunction given as the crews debated VNE vs best endurance, continue on the cross country VIP transport to flaming out on an ILS do to fuel starvation do to crossfeed usage.
debriefs were fun
So far, wins the contest. Priceless..
Had a pair of under-performing arab students in the sim, slowly sped the tailwind up until their groundspeed for a B206 was 250kt.
They didn't notice.
They didn't notice.
