Quote:
The flight training must include at least the following subjects:
(i) Normal cruise flight operations while operating above 25,000 feet MSL;
(ii) Proper emergency procedures for simulated rapid decompression without actually depressurizing the aircraft; and
(iii) Emergency descent procedures.
That's the FAR text. Now what defines "emergency descent procedures?" In a sim, do the full shabang all the way to 10K or whatever your aircraft specifies. In the plane, doing the procedures and
simulating the descent portion would be good enough in my view. No different than old school MPTFGIVFC (mixture, props, throttles, flaps up, gear up, identify, verify, feather, cutoff) in the multi-engine pistons we learned during training...when we got to "feather...cutoff" we didn't feather and kill a perfectly good, simulated dead engine, did we? No difference here. Don the mask, run procedures as specified in your plane, touch the throttle and say "power to idle", then say "nose down to maintain X kts". I think we all understand that training and a true emergency are not exactly the same thing...if the pressurization blows in a turbo piston, the last thing I'm worried about is shock cooling the engine(s) during descent.
I'd say stay in the TBM even if it's not loggable...it's experience and potential connections which are invaluable in the industry. Plus it'll look better to the owner than you showing up after you're qualified to log and suddenly being willing to fly.