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Originally Posted by ready2fly  Kell, maybe I'm missing something, but in your ground classes, is it just captain upgrades and at some point you co-mingle with the FO's or is everyone in the same class?
I guess what I'm asking is: Are you getting some kind of "captain specific" training without the FO's present?
Not sure how it works here at Eagle. I'll find out in 376 more people though.  |
It's all CAs (well, CAs, the ACP from MSP and one guy from the FAA). Right now it seems like it's a huge review with more in-depth analysis. If I had done all this as a new hire, my head would have exploded. I was doing good to get things to add up on the w&b sheet. Start taking into account screwed up releases (that I couldn't even read back then), and I woulda glazed over in 10 minutes. Next week we start getting into systems, etc, so that'll probably more of the same: review with in depth analysis. I don't see an FO until I do Cat II training after my checkride.
Friday started out with, you guessed it, more performance. We went into climb charts, step climbs, when to transition to mach and fuel planning problems. Then we went over cruise issues like long range cruise (when to use it and why), hold speeds and hold charts (and another fuel problem...holding a GQE VOR with 6000 lbs of fuel, MEM wx goes down, alternate is LIT. How long can we hold?). Talked about "green line" on the ASI and what it does for us and the stall buffet margin charts (why and where we would use them). Talked about landing and special engine out considerations as part of go-arounds.
Little break then we talked about brake temps and the BTMS section. What do we do when it's inop? What are our limits both when it's operative and inop? What do we do on a rejected t/o? Performance section ended with more line situation problems that was more or less an overview of all the performance we did during the week.
After lunch we talked about mountain flying, MORAs, driftdown charts, driftdown procedures, mountain wave turbulence and focused on Helena, MT since that's the airport used in the sim for our mountain checkout.
The week ended with a summary of some of the high points in our ops specs, like alternate filings, CAT II, exemption 3585, etc. After that, everyone else left for the weekend, my sim partner and I ran through profiles until we were cross-eyed. So, I'm studying up on memory items and limitations but taking the rest of the weekend off.