Originally Posted by
Pokerpilot
OK, this one is hard to blow.
Did he get knocked out on sim 1 or 2, or did this happen on sim 10. He had 9 sim sessions to report this act to the manager of training. He could have changed instructor. Another check airman or something.
Now, if this is true FlightSafety records the sim sessions, atleast that was the story I was told during my training. If he was on sim number 10 he was having a hard time with training because TSA only does 8 from what I recall. Am not saying he is a bad pilot, just bad luck on this side.
I did not know your sim instructor could be your check airman. I think that was the reason he got knocked out. He had the checkride gouge first hand from the man himself, and he was still mesing up. Please, I beg you in the name of Hulas, do not start a story that might not be true, you could hurt someone's career.
I wish him WELL on this future plans.
Here is how I heard the story. He said that he and his partner did fine for the first 8 sims. Then one night they were going through the company ops manual and realized that their sim instructor had been teaching things differently. They brought this to the attention of TSA and they told them that the flightsafety sim guy had taught them Chautauqua's profiles. To correct this they would be assigned a new sim instructor, do 2 sim sessions, then that same instructor would be the check airman as well. (This is the guy who the incident occurred with supposedly.) He hit him in the face on the first sim when he missed a non flying pilot callout. Then throughout the rest of that sim as well as the next he was yelling and swearing, plus hitting, breaking, and throwing chairs.
The failure happened on the last sim, I guess primacy was getting the better of him and he kept forgetting that he was supposed to hit this button at the FAF to start them down like he practiced in the first 8 sims as opposed to him calling for the non flying pilot to do so. He was warned and given another chance. He remember to hit the button himselft on the second try but he didn't hit the button until 1/4 mile past the FAF. The instructor said that was not acceptable, and said those to messups were his 2 strikes (or whatever they are called) for the ride. He was then told he would be getting vectors for another chance at the approach and this would be his last chance. So he takes the vector and starts cleaning up the airplane. The check airman then stops the sim and informs him that he just failed. He asked if he knew why? For failing to callout the missed approach and go around.
So that is it as I heard it. Kind of a bummer.