The supervisor also ordered a veteran controller to tell one of the four pilots to report an incorrect altitude to see whether the trainee would catch the mistake, Cook said.
This should never be done. Period. Didn't the TSA do something like this with pax bags...putting controlled substances in them without their knowledge and then that pax got busted in a foreign country because the TSA "forgot" about it. What happens if the manager "forgets" about your incorrect altitude???