Glad we can refuse instructors here,
@ppragman your PERSONAL dream list would not fly at most airline's. Either you meet the standards set through your companies training program or you don't. No one should have play your BS game to stroke your ego because you think you are a vault of information and know more than the pilots you are quizzing.
I hope before you start your game of jeopardy that you tell your students they passed so they don't think they are failing while you sit and ask unneccesary questions.
You even read my posts?
That’s literally exactly what I gave them. A list of exactly what they had to know and if they passed they knew. It’s not jeopardy to be able to know some things about the electrical system on a single pilot airplane or know why the left engine is surging during a prop governor failure, or just some basic systems knowledge about the airplane. “What does this light mean” is pretty freaking basic. No you don’t need to be able to solder up a new PCB on demand but knowing that the reason you got the annunciator power light was probably because the boss just spilled his drink on the floor right over compartment where the PCB that controls that is at night come in handy one day - I can say that it did for me.
Pick up a book every once in a while. Learn. Try to be better than you were before.
We have a guy above you that says he doesn’t want to be too knowledgeable about the systems because it might confuse him. We can do better than that. We have guys in this thread that say, “the less systems knowledge the better.” What a sack of crap. How can you safely operate the thing during an abnormal if you don’t know how the thing actually works. Of course it’s hard work to know all the stuff you should know (not just need to know), but so what? Life is hard, and being good at anything is hard - I’m not a natural aviator, and I don’t have a photographic memory, if I want to do a good job I have to work at it. I didn’t spring forth after basic indoc with anything more than the baseline minimum amount of knowledge to operate the airplane. Now it’s my job to start learning.
I’ll tell you this, I make time for it in my life to learn the equipment I’m operatinf, I don’t always do as well as I’d like, but I try. I take time out of my own life to crack the book, and have gone down to the hangar to ask mechanics about how things “really” worked on more than one occasion. I figure if there were people that were going to be flying around in the back of the airplane I am driving I owe it to them to be as knowledgeable about the airplane as I can. I owe it to them to have thought about what I was going to do if things went sideways beyond simply, “pull out the QRH.” It’s an ethical obligation.
Hell some of the airplanes I’ve flown have had things that are straight up wrong in the QRH.
When I gave checkrides they were fair, if you knew the “need to know” material that I literally gave you in conveniently flash card form in advance you would be fine - and by the way, the need to know material was just the important limitations, memory items, and company mandated ops stuff. When I got through all those, I’d say, “hey you passed the oral, let’s talk about systems a little bit.”
Like I said, if we’re not willing to go the extra mile we deserve to be replaced by the robots. beyond that, why wouldn’t you want to learn this stuff? If you’re not interested in learning about then why are you still doing it?
Sorry for the inevitable typos - dropped my phone and now my touch input is wonky.
Do that in a 717 and the boards automatically retract and you get a message telling you to stow the handle.
