Teach them correctly, and you don't need them to "tell you what they are thinking" or any other touchy-feely bs, you will know it.
Oh this makes for interesting discussion.
First off.... is that not what Intermediate flight training is about? We are teaching them the fundamental tools to succeed in the RAG and Fleet. We don't want robots. Need them to have solid SA, airmanship, and decision making process. This ties directly into the subject of this thread.
'Bird strike on takeoff....lost your engine....NATOPS says to eject....what do you do?'
If they are robots or lack that decision making process, we just lost a jet. As with all emergencies, what do you do? Well I would hope almost everyone would say "well it depends". Execute Bold face? What about assesments....what is my altitude, airspeed, distance from field, is engine core rotating providing me HYD's, weather, approach etc. No one out of T-34 has those skills or even thought about things like this. The thought process the crew in this thread executed are worth thinking about, learning what goods and bads happened, and filing that into your own skill bank to recall god for bid the time ever came where they found themselves needing those skills.
No emergency is the same. Is there any one right or wrong way to handle an emergency? Answer to that is no. So I for one want the hear the so called "Touch-feely BS". I want to know what the students thought process is. Because if he doesn't have a good decision making process or has an unsafe/lacking decision making process, do we pass him on his Fam safe for solo check ride and let him solo?
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Teach them correctly, and you don't need them to "tell you what they are thinking" or any other touchy-feely bs, you will know it.
...I needed a good laugh. How one person with 2500 hours handles an emergency is different from one with 5000 hours and even for sure someone with...what is is it 71 hours now coming into T-45's?
For every SNA in out there answer this one question. On the day of your winging, can you go back and pass a BI/RI or AN check ride? If you took any time to answer that question we have issues. Can lead a horse to water but can't force him to drink. Days of block training and data dump are over in Intermediate's but fact is, it happens.