1 month down, 1 to go
I know its been a while since I've posted, but the past 4 weeks have been spent cramming my head full of a lot of information. Everyone calls airline training "trying to drink from a fire hose". They are correct. The sheer amount of information that needs to be absorbed is astounding. We have 3 main books that are our new flying bibles.
The first book is our Flight Operations Manual. This book governs how we operate. It contains information ranging from how we are to keep our hair to what we do with unruly pax. Bible number 2 is our Flight Manual. This book contains all our new procedures for flying. It makes sure that every pilot at the company is on the same page as far as what we do in the airplane. This way every pilot flys the same way. (for the most part) It also contains our memory items and limitations. These chapters need to be committed to memory verbatim. The limitations chapter is almost 50 pages long and has items on every page that must be committed to memory. This book also contains our expanded checklists and flows which also need to be memorized. Further on the the book, we have our maneuvers and profiles. This is a template for how we fly the aircraft. We have call outs and procedures that must be followed to a "T" for every flight regime.
Bible number 3 is the systems manual. This is where we find all the information we could ever want about the plane. We must have every switch, light, lever, knob and system memorized as well as how they all interact. We need to have detailed, working knowledge of how every system in the plane works. All 22 chapters in the book need to be read, highlighted and read again. This way we have a good understanding of how the plane works.
After you have digested and memorized the contents of the three bibles, you now get to show off your newly acquired knowledge by taking an oral exam with a check airman or a fed (if your having a real bad day). The oral exam can be a tortuous event for those that come unprepared. I've heard the horror stories of guys busting for even the smallest of errors or forgotten items. This can last anywhere from an hour to 3 hours if the check airman has to drag every answer out of you. After you pass the oral, its then on to cockpit procedure training to finally go learn how to fly the plane the way the company wants you to. Then if you pass a phase check, basically a mini checkride in a pseudo sim, you get to go to the sims.
Currently I am sitting here in my hotel taking a little study break. I finished up the ground school this week and am studying for my oral exam that I take early this week. Hopefully that'll go well and I'll get to start my cockpit procedures training towards the end of the week. If everything goes according to schedule, I'll start my sims in 2 weeks, finish them on time and take my checkride in another 4 weeks. Of course this is just a tentative schedule. All it takes is one broken sim, someone ahead of me needing retraining, a busted checkride or numerous other events to throw a wrench in the works. So I'm hoping everything will go as fast as possible. All I really care about is finishing up so I can go home.
The first book is our Flight Operations Manual. This book governs how we operate. It contains information ranging from how we are to keep our hair to what we do with unruly pax. Bible number 2 is our Flight Manual. This book contains all our new procedures for flying. It makes sure that every pilot at the company is on the same page as far as what we do in the airplane. This way every pilot flys the same way. (for the most part) It also contains our memory items and limitations. These chapters need to be committed to memory verbatim. The limitations chapter is almost 50 pages long and has items on every page that must be committed to memory. This book also contains our expanded checklists and flows which also need to be memorized. Further on the the book, we have our maneuvers and profiles. This is a template for how we fly the aircraft. We have call outs and procedures that must be followed to a "T" for every flight regime.
Bible number 3 is the systems manual. This is where we find all the information we could ever want about the plane. We must have every switch, light, lever, knob and system memorized as well as how they all interact. We need to have detailed, working knowledge of how every system in the plane works. All 22 chapters in the book need to be read, highlighted and read again. This way we have a good understanding of how the plane works.
After you have digested and memorized the contents of the three bibles, you now get to show off your newly acquired knowledge by taking an oral exam with a check airman or a fed (if your having a real bad day). The oral exam can be a tortuous event for those that come unprepared. I've heard the horror stories of guys busting for even the smallest of errors or forgotten items. This can last anywhere from an hour to 3 hours if the check airman has to drag every answer out of you. After you pass the oral, its then on to cockpit procedure training to finally go learn how to fly the plane the way the company wants you to. Then if you pass a phase check, basically a mini checkride in a pseudo sim, you get to go to the sims.
Currently I am sitting here in my hotel taking a little study break. I finished up the ground school this week and am studying for my oral exam that I take early this week. Hopefully that'll go well and I'll get to start my cockpit procedures training towards the end of the week. If everything goes according to schedule, I'll start my sims in 2 weeks, finish them on time and take my checkride in another 4 weeks. Of course this is just a tentative schedule. All it takes is one broken sim, someone ahead of me needing retraining, a busted checkride or numerous other events to throw a wrench in the works. So I'm hoping everything will go as fast as possible. All I really care about is finishing up so I can go home.
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