I’ve lost track of what number sim out of how many. I suppose I could figure it out, but that’s not important right now. After this morning’s session, we have one more ‘beat up’ session, then the final session before the checkride, which is supposed to basically be a mock … Continue reading
Here’s a biggie all in one update. Jerry – Don’t have any details but it sounds like his condition continues to worsen. It sounds like he’s getting to the point he was at shortly before I visited him. Had he not had aggressive medical intervention then, he likely would not … Continue reading
After 4 days off we made it back to the simulator today. Technically, again, it was supposed to be the last of the CPT (Cockpit Procedures Trainer) lessons, but we did it as a simulator lesson and are still ahead of the program. Tomorrow is technically simulator lesson #1. Today … Continue reading
… It was bound to happen eventually. We had our first sim session yesterday morning. Last night we did some of the briefing for our second session which will be this morning. After that, my partner and I did some studying focusing on getting the callouts just right. When the … Continue reading
I’m on my way to Memphis for part 2 of upgrade training. Part 1 was ground school. I finished that up and had a couple weeks off. Part 2 is simulator training. I have a total of 12 sessions between tomorrow and March 19th. The first one, tomorrow, is a … Continue reading
So I passed the oral this morning. One more step down. Now I’m on my way home for a couple weeks off. I haven’t actually made any concrete plans for that time off yet. I’m sure I’ll figure out how to busy it up. I might take a little trip. … Continue reading
The last two and a half weeks have been pretty busy. It has been 7 years since I did an initial aircraft course (MD-11 at World). The last one I did was mid-2000 in the Canadair Regional Jet when I upgraded to Captain at Comair. I already knew that airplane … Continue reading
Too much to write and not enough time to write it all. The short version is, this week I’ve been working pretty darn hard. Lots of studying, not all exclusively for my benefit. I’m thinking I’m doing alright. The Oral got rescheduled (errr relocated) to Memphis this coming Sunday. I … Continue reading
I’m exactly halfway through week 1 of systems (lunch on Wednesday) on the DC-10. This is the meat and potatoes of the airplane. My initial reaction when looking at the cockpit was to think that this was going to be pretty difficult. I knew the systems were similar to the … Continue reading
Fortunately, things aren’t still going like they did the day I came down to Atlanta. In fact, things have smoothed out quite a bit. Every year, we do recurrent training and a portion of that is going over several FAA mandated subjects such as emergency equipment (survival, firefighting, etc.), security, … Continue reading
