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seagull · February 13th, 2005, 11:20

When I instructed for a large west coast regional, we did all of the training in the actual airplanes. Nothing like simulating a V1 cut at midnight by pulling a throttle to idle and hanging on! Many hours of that kind of stuff. Standard policy is we flew if the weather was legal, so we'd be up doing airwork in IMC with block altitudes. Great fun, but sims are definitely safer.

I did get to fly the actual aircraft for the final phase of pre-IOE for both my F/O checkouts in the 727 and DC8. After that, it's been sims after since. Really seems to be no problem, and I have had no issue with taking a student out for their first "actual airplane" flight on a revenue trip. All the same to me!

February 13th, 2005, 11:20	#12
seagull Old Skool Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 2,044	Re: Actual Air Time?-Maybe a stupid question When I instructed for a large west coast regional, we did all of the training in the actual airplanes. Nothing like simulating a V1 cut at midnight by pulling a throttle to idle and hanging on! Many hours of that kind of stuff. Standard policy is we flew if the weather was legal, so we'd be up doing airwork in IMC with block altitudes. Great fun, but sims are definitely safer. I did get to fly the actual aircraft for the final phase of pre-IOE for both my F/O checkouts in the 727 and DC8. After that, it's been sims after since. Really seems to be no problem, and I have had no issue with taking a student out for their first "actual airplane" flight on a revenue trip. All the same to me!