If you are telling me that the goal in intermediate is to teach a SNA to not overspeed gear and flaps, then I'll ask A4s to join me in weeping.!
Wow need to get over it and look at big picture. No one ever said "the goal of intermediate was to not overspeed the gear". Your arguement was saying it was BS to have to do it and a harassment. The calling of gear/flaps is a learning objective...let make my self clear..."A" learning objective...one of many in the program, that is teaching more then the obvious....and also it is good crew coordination in multi crew cockpit (yes still multi crew) . IP's and more to the point CNATRA believes in it and set procedures. It is same as going hot mike in low altitude region....safety. Procedure would not be in place if wasn't good reason so some history to it in past. Some of those being, settling on takeoff on BI flight because SNA raised flaps less then 140kts....raising flaps off low key after putting them down and settling, split slats caused by putting flaps down under G in break (T45 specific), overspeeding the gear in break at 300kts.
oh by the way, should never be acceptable to overspeed the gear because of a pilot error. Poor airmanship and don't know many that are proud of it because of undue maintenance hours created...especially in the fleet with enlisted crew and now have to stay late.
...so that's why you don't let them decide to raise gear and flaps themselves, they have to ask? Doesn't seem like a good way to build solid airmanship, and good decision making processes. I didn't realize cleaning up the jet was an emergency - that thing much be a handful!
Actually makes complete sense for reasons stated earlier. Teach them right in first place. Is that not what they are doing? The learning point from day one is not just simply put gear and flaps up or down. The learning objective ...let me make this clear again. "A" learning objective is to think about it by knowing airspeed, and situation etc...instead of just slapping the handle up/down. This makes complete sense in an instruction world especially when their first hop in jet is in back, under hood, doing instrucment takeoff and fighting battle of the thrust/tumbling/vertigo effect. And especially makes sense in an emergency scenario when time compression takes effect and they gonna find themselves solo more then half the time in program.
If calling for the gear is a harassment...then they have no idea what they are in for in RAG's when F18 IP's will crap all over you for wrong scale on HSI in takeoff/landing environment and wrong displays up on appropiate side at certain phases of flight.
