Originally Posted by
flensr
I dunno about "everyone else" but for little plane military folks like me, any sim evals would be basically pulled out of our nether regions.
"Do your normal flow" -- What's a flow?
"Just preflight however your usually preflight" -- Ok, where does the ejection seat pin go and how do I give the hand signal for my wingman to start his/her engine?
Turn everything off and then turn everything on doesn't translate well from an F-teen to a 737. So I was personally glad I didn't have to do a sim check, since I would have had to do it completely cold and falling back literally 100% on pitch/power/trim basics because almost nothing crossed over, and the entire sim check would end up being hand-flown in a plane I'd never flown before. Not a good look unless you want me to demo simulator aerobatics, in which case yea I could probably do that without an over-G or overspeed just by looking out the window. Going from a plane with either no autopilot or a rudimentary altitude/heading hold autopilot, tacan only, with a hud, to a 737 sim check wouldn't really tell anyone very much except my ability to BS my way through something I was making up as I went along. And that's what the scenario event walk-through was for.
That's pretty much the reason why they quit doing them. Sim checks became a cottage industry for the interview prep folks. Pilots were spending thousands of dollars getting multiple sim sessions to prepare them for a very specific profile that their company of choice was putting on. Of course they all rocked it because they had spent the time and money and prepared and so that became the expectation.