I think 's point was that the trainee should not have been behind the controls of the plane before showing at least some basic competence in a flight sim or something.
Contrary to what you see in movies and TV, flight sims are rarely used. And when they are it's usually for advanced training like emergencies, IFR, and combat. In all cases the focus is pilot reaction to instrumentation or events rather than accuracy of the flight model. Additionally, simulators fly and feel nothing like the real thing. Not to mention feedback is also completely different except in the most expensive of simulators (usually several thousand dollars per hour).
Flight training is very much monkey see monkey do. The IP shows you how to do it. Usually over a series of introductory flights. As the student shows proficiency they are provided more opportunity to kill them (student and pilot). It's a high trust environment. As an example, my brother is a Longbow IP. A student was able to tail strike and total the aircraft faster than he could respond. These are students who have already passed basic, advanced, and complex aircraft training. Once he was able to responded he kept them alive. It's amazing they didn't end up in a fireball (pilot skill [landing within 1' of level] and self sealing tanks were the factors [fuel leaked everywhere]). But the crash was 100% sealed once the tail strike occurred. He has also trained some middle eastern "allies." Staving off death was literally an every day event.
Realistically, it's unlikely she should have been an IP. Even if she actually was qualified pairing her with someone physically stronger than her is a terrible mistake. If you can't overpower the student, or at least hold your own, your life is literally in the hands of the other person to not panic and perform rationally as shown - and release control of the aircraft in extremely stressful situations. A panic freeze is a killer situation if you can't overpower them.
Contrary to what you see in movies and TV, flight sims are rarely used. And when they are it's usually for advanced training like emergencies, IFR, and combat.
That's interesting.
Reminds me of the whole sky king incident
Horizon Air CEO Gary Beck stated that, as far as the company knew, Russell did not have a pilot's license. Beck said the aerial maneuvers were "incredible" and that he "did not know how [Russell] achieved the experience that he did." During his conversation with air traffic control, Russell said he "[knew] what [he was] doing a little bit" because he had experience playing video games.
Ya, that whole event really stunk. While I have no clue what was going on, I don't believe the official account. Not at all.
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