When I’m in Star City, manual docking sessions are regularly put on my training schedule, so I can maintain and possibly improve my skills before serving as a backup crewmember next May.
I have attached a picture of the simulator we use to practice manual flying. As you can see, the manual controls and the periscope view are only available in the center seat, where the commander sits. As a flight engineer sitting in the left seat, I don’t have access to those commands.
Still, as a flight engineer I am required to show the same proficiency as the Soyuz commander. In spaceflight we like to plan for all possible contingencies: just as we design vehicles to have full redundancy on all critical systems, we also plan to have more than one crewmember capable of fulfilling critical tasks. And getting successfully to Station, you’ll probably agree, is pretty critical to mission success!
(Trad IT) Traduzione in italiano a cura di +AstronautiNEWS qui:
https://www.astronautinews.it/tag/logbook/
(Trad ES) Tradducción en español aquí:
https://www.intervidia.com/category/bitacora/
(Trad FR) Traduction en français par +Anne Cpamoa ici:
https://anne.cpamoa.free.fr/blog/index.php/category/logbook-samantha
07/12/2013