Quick CRJ Training Update

[nwadc10]

"Well, as I mentioned before I was going to be moving on to the simulator after passing the oral exam. My sim partner and I have progressed very well thru the first 9 of 10 sim sessions. We have been doing 1 sim session per day with a couple days off mixed in the middle. The sim sessions start with a 1 hour prebrief which is instructional regarding the tasks for the day. From there we get into the level D simulator for 4 hours. Two hours I'm in the right seat acting as pilot flying and my partner is in the left seat acting as pilot monitoring. After a couple hours we take a 15 minute break and swap seats and our roles reverse. After another 2 hours we sit down for a 1 hour debrief. In all we spend 6 hrs per day at the sim session plus another 3-4 hours before hand in preparation. The CRJ (sim) is proving to be a fun airplane to fly. After getting the feel for the pitch sensetivity (which I hear is a sim issue and the real plane is much more stable) it's easy to fly. I hadn't flown a flight director previous to this so it was a new experience and it took only about 5 minutes to become accustomed and addicted to a flight director. My airline uses the "V-bar" flight director and hand flying an ILS approach to minimums isn't even and issue because the FD is so easy to follow. Tomorrow we have our last sim session which is a practice checkride. Checkride day is next Tuesday. I'm looking forward to finishing this up because I haven't been home in 2 months. I haven't been very active around here lately and it's not because I don't want to participate, it's because right now the training needs all of my attention. I will be done training very soon and can get back on track with GC and we'll get some of these projects finished up and new ones started including vDHL/GCX. Keep that cargo moving everyone! Justin"

[esurfman]

Good luck for your checkride Justin.

[nwadc10]

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Good luck for your checkride Justin.

Thanks I'll be sure to post here on how it went."

[Greg Goodavish]

"Good luck, Justin. My son is in Naval Flight school at Pensacola, and is very busy as well. He is in IFR training now, having finished up with the T34 trainer. He finds out in a few weeks what aircraft he is going to be flying. He suspects it might be helo's. Maybe you guys will pass trails in the sky! "

[Mike Schmitt]

My father trains airline pilots for international airlines for Airbus (I believe the A-320) at company called sim center in Miami. Good luck to you with your check ride and career.

[nwadc10]

"Thanks to all the good lucks. I'm happy to report that I passed the checkride with flying colors. The examiner was extremely impressed with my flying and said it was the first time ever that he didn't have any remarks to put on the records. We didn't even debrief because he said he had no comments to make Tomorrow my sim partner and I do a pressure free LOFT flight in the sim where we actually get to go to point B (all other sim sessions we had the misfortune of being assigned a very unreliable aircraft and we had to return to the departure airport every time). Then I do 4 legs of jumpseating to learn ACARS which can't be simulated in the sim. Then, I finally get to the real plane on OE! Justin"

[esurfman]

Good. So when are you taking us for a ride????

[cyoo eddie]

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The examiner was extremely impressed with my flying

Justin, did you tell him it was from all those hours in the 742/744? Congrats on the checkride Justin"

[mlegein]

Fantastic!! I hope your vertical speed on landing was better than what's in your pireps...

[chevol]

Congrats ! I heard CRJ now means Cool Ride with Justin... cheers Luc