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Originally Posted by TheOneMarine  Not reassuring bro!  I only have 560TT. Granted no suspect time, its all instructing, but it I guess all I can do is go and do my best. |
Look man, it's all about your scan... just keep the thing going. I had no jet time and no glass time when I interviewed. I learned the glass scan on Microsoft Flight Sim 2004 on the lear 55. It's not even the same airplane, but it doesn't matter... it's all about having the scan on glass. Pay attention to the brief you get before hand. I took a couple of notecards where wrote down all of the things that the instructor said and I put them to memory. Here is my list of a few things to remember in the sim.
1) Utilize your sim partner. The guy (or girl) can do anything you tell them to do, save fly the plane for you or tell you how to enter the hold. you can even ask them to set the power if you have a specific power setting you want set.
2) Lower your decent rate 1000 feet prior to reaching altitude. Just like the AIM says, right? 1500 feet works well. And you have that big annoying chime that tells you when you are 1000 feet away.
3) Know your hold entries like the back of your hand. If you are iffy on them now, you will shoot a blank when you are under the pressure.
4) Use the airspeed trend vector to set the power and pitch to maintain altitude.
5) KEEP YOUR SCAN GOING. Even if you are blowing something, drifting off-course, getting off your altitude, etc., keeep your scan up and make corrections. The minute you start fixating on one thing, you will start losing situational awareness and screwing up. Keep scanning.
That's all I have, but you should be fine. Looking back on it, most of the advice I just gave is advice you would give a brand new instrument student. It's just an airplane.