Originally Posted by
xjcaptain
Let's see......You don't fly SOP on line, and you wonder why you have trouble in the sim doing something that you don't practice. Perhaps if you flew profiles on the line, then the sim would be EXACTLY what you would have been doing over and over and over. Worked well on your new-hire checkride, and the trouble began after you started doing something different.
Have fun doing 180 knots 10 miles out at any airport in the new york, chicago, LA area,.... you let me know how it works out.
Profiles are not made to be realistic. Newhires especially need to be able to refer to something that tells you "ok i need to be at this speed, in this configuration, this many miles out." If they didnt have this none of us would pass.
ORIGINAL QUESTION: I am guessing you are an FO and get to fly the sim once a year. The instructors arent looking for perfection. They dont expect you to know how to perfectly fly a steep turn when you havent done it in a yr or more and havent stepped foot in a sim. The captain does it better than you because he does it every 6 months and probably has a couple yrs more experience.
PC's should be learning experiences and working yourself up too much over the pass/fail stuff is a sure fire way to miss out on a good experience. If you fail because you didnt study... your an idiot but if you actually tried and still failed you wont be the first. Just try to learn from it... most companies are very forgiving when it comes to retraining.