Every naval aviator is intimately familiar with J the antics of the emergency-procedures (EPs) simulator. The flight seems benign at first, but then the instructor gets bored and decides to fail five different systems at once. Eventually, your indications tell you to shut down both engines and pray you hit your mark on the runway. Executing emergency procedures is one of the fundamentals of flying. We rigorously train to them in flight school and carry those lessons to the fleet replacement squadrons and beyond. Of course, the further we get from the training command, the more tactics become the forefront of our thoughts and consume the majority of our study time. This was exactly where I found myself on an overcast December afternoon.
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