Performance Verification: My last blog update
Posted October 6th, 2009 at 21:52 by swinte00
Greetings to all. I hope in the absence of blog updates you find yourselves in good health and possibly at the MMAC in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Initial Tower Cab has been extremely fun, challenging in different aspects, but most of all, a great learning experience. We moved from the Tabletops to the TSS labs a few weeks ago and I am set to complete both my Ground Control and Local Control PVs in approximately 12 hours.
The TSS labs are outdated and the video screens are washed out. The voice recognition SUCKS and most of all, the pilots talk really fast, but only understand when you speak slowly and enunciate properly.
Problems 2 through 6 were probably the easiest problems I completed. After these, the traffic complexity increases, you're faced with a DBRITE malfunction, wind shifts, and other issues as the training progresses. On top of all of this, traffic volume in and of itself also increases. There is one night time problem, one dusk problem, and the rest are run during daytime VFR.
Things have progressed rather well for me and I feel 100% confident that I will have no problems in passing my PV. However, sometimes things happen and people make mistakes. It happened today with a few of my basics classmates, as well as one from my Tower Cab class. Three have retakes on Local Control tomorrow, with one of those also having to retake Ground Control.
Although the problem for performance verification is not supposed to be too complex, nerves are what get to most people and cause them to overlook something they would have otherwise noticed in a normal run in the TSS.
All I can say is that I wish those luck who have to take or retake their PV.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send me a PM.
May FOLs arrive in your email inboxes and training go well for those of you already in OKC.
Initial Tower Cab has been extremely fun, challenging in different aspects, but most of all, a great learning experience. We moved from the Tabletops to the TSS labs a few weeks ago and I am set to complete both my Ground Control and Local Control PVs in approximately 12 hours.
The TSS labs are outdated and the video screens are washed out. The voice recognition SUCKS and most of all, the pilots talk really fast, but only understand when you speak slowly and enunciate properly.
Problems 2 through 6 were probably the easiest problems I completed. After these, the traffic complexity increases, you're faced with a DBRITE malfunction, wind shifts, and other issues as the training progresses. On top of all of this, traffic volume in and of itself also increases. There is one night time problem, one dusk problem, and the rest are run during daytime VFR.
Things have progressed rather well for me and I feel 100% confident that I will have no problems in passing my PV. However, sometimes things happen and people make mistakes. It happened today with a few of my basics classmates, as well as one from my Tower Cab class. Three have retakes on Local Control tomorrow, with one of those also having to retake Ground Control.
Although the problem for performance verification is not supposed to be too complex, nerves are what get to most people and cause them to overlook something they would have otherwise noticed in a normal run in the TSS.
All I can say is that I wish those luck who have to take or retake their PV.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to send me a PM.
May FOLs arrive in your email inboxes and training go well for those of you already in OKC.
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