This was my comment to Bob today during our pre-flight briefing.
Now that he’s reasonably confident that I'm flying decent circuits he likes to
mix it up a little and break things. As I’ve mentioned before we’ve touched on comms failure and
practiced both flapless landings and engine failures.
Everytime we go out he knocks it up a notch. Today he simulated a
comms failure by reaching over and removing my headset! So I genuinely couldn’t
hear what he was saying to ATC and what they were saying to him. The engine is
bloody loud without it! I could barely hear Bob over the noise. I ended up with
a slightly high approach and had to improvise some hand signals to inform him I
was going to overshoot.
It would also seem that I don’t get notice of engine failures
anymore either. I think Bob got bored because there wasn’t much for him to do
today, so he reached over and killed the power without a word to me or ATC initially. Thanks! Next time try Sudoku
or something instead.
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