The Sim

As I sit in my office at the start of the week, I have just spoken to Capt Gordon Black. Gordon is a training captain with British Airways on the Boeing 777. Today he starts his 2 days in the simulator. Pilots are put through their paces every six months for their entire career! Gordon has run several of these as a trainer and has sat through many as a pilot but he still feels the pressure everytime he goes into the sim! There are very few jobs where continual training is so religiously maintained, but as passengers we should feel resassured that the pilots flying us are perhaps the most checked and highly trained of any profession.