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Originally Posted by taseal  I have a friend who finished training at republic for 170s... he says the IOE is intense. they want u to do walkaround and do all the paperwork in about 11 mins... he says that right now he is at about 30 for everything and they aren't too happy... |
Honestly, 30 mins sounds a little too long to me, even for a new guy. He's probably getting too worked up and checking and re-checking himself over and over again because he's afraid he's missed something. I've seen it a million times. Guys get so worried that they've missed something in the FMS programming that it takes them 10 minutes to do something that they can really get done in 2 minutes.
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Originally Posted by taseal its just, 11 min sounds way too quick. almost not too safe. like he told me that sometimes he has to wait to count the fuel leak drops. because they are allowed to have like x drops a min or something. thats a min right there. |
Counting fuel drops? Seriously? Good grief, tell the guy to just walk around the airplane and make sure everything looks right. Nobody needs to be counting fuel drops when pre-flighting an airplane. No wonder it's taking him so long. I can do a walk-around in about 2 minutes on a 717. I could do it in about 90 seconds on the CRJ. (excluding first flight of the day pre-flights with the TSA security nonsense)