Colgan Saab Ground School
Posted August 4th, 2008 at 00:54 by v1valarob
So I failed at keeping this up to date. But ground school is pretty intense and the last thing you think about is keeping your blog up to date.
6 weeks ago (or there abouts..) I started Saab ground school with Colgan. Ground school for the Saab is in Manassas, which is where I instructed and 25 minutes from where I lived. This made my experience much different from everyone else in my class. Everyone else who attends a 121 ground school is NORMALLY away from home and is able to focus completely on studying. My friends really couldn't understand why I wouldnt hang out with them on occasions that I normally would have. Sometimes however I did ditch studying to go hang out with my friends on the weekend.
Ground school is broken up into 2 phases. Systems and Indoctrination. Systems is just what it sounds like, systems that are on and inside of the aircraft. Electrical, Hydraulics, Pneumatic, etc. Indoctrination is basically learning the rules in which we operate our aircraft. Normally you go through indoc first, and once you pass the indoc test you move on to systems. However for us they switched it around. We arent sure why, but it turned out to be a pretty good deal.
The systems are extremely in depth and going from a light twin to a fully loaded Saab that can take off at 29,000lbs is a huge step and when most systems are only covered for a day, and never touched on again you better prepare to be bombarded with information. Most compare it to drinking water from a fire hose. The first 2 weeks where spent on systems, one a day. After the 2 weeks we took a 100 question, multiple choice test. I passed. To be honest the test was much easier than most of us had thought it would be. They go much further in depth on each system in class than they will on the test.
We then moved onto indoctrination. To be honest we all found indoctrination to be a bit of a joke since it was an open book test. Most of the stuff you know already, but are required to be taught it again. Yes, I passed this open book test.
Next onto Sim….
6 weeks ago (or there abouts..) I started Saab ground school with Colgan. Ground school for the Saab is in Manassas, which is where I instructed and 25 minutes from where I lived. This made my experience much different from everyone else in my class. Everyone else who attends a 121 ground school is NORMALLY away from home and is able to focus completely on studying. My friends really couldn't understand why I wouldnt hang out with them on occasions that I normally would have. Sometimes however I did ditch studying to go hang out with my friends on the weekend.
Ground school is broken up into 2 phases. Systems and Indoctrination. Systems is just what it sounds like, systems that are on and inside of the aircraft. Electrical, Hydraulics, Pneumatic, etc. Indoctrination is basically learning the rules in which we operate our aircraft. Normally you go through indoc first, and once you pass the indoc test you move on to systems. However for us they switched it around. We arent sure why, but it turned out to be a pretty good deal.
The systems are extremely in depth and going from a light twin to a fully loaded Saab that can take off at 29,000lbs is a huge step and when most systems are only covered for a day, and never touched on again you better prepare to be bombarded with information. Most compare it to drinking water from a fire hose. The first 2 weeks where spent on systems, one a day. After the 2 weeks we took a 100 question, multiple choice test. I passed. To be honest the test was much easier than most of us had thought it would be. They go much further in depth on each system in class than they will on the test.
We then moved onto indoctrination. To be honest we all found indoctrination to be a bit of a joke since it was an open book test. Most of the stuff you know already, but are required to be taught it again. Yes, I passed this open book test.
Next onto Sim….
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