This time, you did all your homework. You got a good night’s sleep. And maybe all your biorhythms were synched up just right. For whatever combination of reasons, you just cleaned your plate — completed your entire training syllabus with half an hour left on your simulator punch card. What would you do? This question also applies to those who perform their recurrent training in flight. You’ve paid for the time. Now, how will you use it?
When Flying Editor-in-Chief Mac McClellan wrote about a recent Citation recurrent training session, he described his response to that scenario. Finishing the syllabus with time to spare, Mac asked his instructor for a challenge, and they decided on an apparently simple visual approach — but to a relatively short, contaminated runway. Mac doesn’t get surprised by much, but he recalled how the procedure turned out to be more complex than it looked at first glance. A lesson for us all.
