Professor tenure or merit, which serves the students?
While I was at Delta Air Lines, every nine months every pilot would return to Atlanta for two days of intense simulator training. For six hours each day in a full-motion simulator with 180-degree 3D visuals, every airport we could fly into, any conceivable mishap, emergency or scenario a pilot might encounter could be created by the trainer. During those grueling hours in the sim, trainers could…