Is using PPT standard in most places for flight briefs, tracoms too? In the VTs we just used white boards (except for the intermediate guys, who I'm pretty sure just used PPT to highlight turnpoints on VNAV routes, but I figure that's acceptable) and in VP-30 land we read off our checklists. Really not looking forward to putting the NAVCOMM brief on a slide if that's how it works in the fleet...
Man, if only we had ppt's in WWII...we could've taken out all those defensive emplacements on D-day and recaptured Japanese owned islands with virtual slideshows without losing a single man.Or the quote from GEN McChrystal to the effect of "once we understand that slide, we've won the war."
Well eventually we got the atom bomb...Man, if only we had ppt's in WWII...we could've taken out all those defensive emplacements on D-day and recaptured Japanese owned islands with virtual slideshows without losing a single man.
In T-6s the IP would do a lot of the brief according to NATOPS, etc with you being required to know the route/discuss items/etc etc. T-1s/T-39s were basically you taking the instructor NFO/ contract pilot flying, with the pilot and INFO generally only briefing required safety items/training rules/jet status (for pilots), etc.Sounds like the FO studs spent more time actually briefing, vice the IP doing the work.
If you simply read the words on the ppt slide, you fail. I don't know how everyone hasn't figured this out yet.........unfortunately this seems to be the norm rather than the exception.
I blame MAWTS-1.
Also, Fortune 500 companies frown upon T&A pictures in PowerPoint briefs. I found that out the hard way.