Pics From Training

Van_Hoolio

Van_Hoolio

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Actually, there were no interesting pics from training. Just imagine classrooms, people sitting around reading books and big white boxes up on hydraulic legs.

But we did have three days off, so we went on a mini road trip:


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I hope to get some higher resolution photos soon, and I'll post them if/when I get 'em.

Mike
 
Yea I just finished ground training at XJT, waiting for IOE. XJT had rented the CAE EMB-145 sim in PHX for us, since theirs are too busy. It was actually right by the ATP office at Williams Gateway.

Mike
 
I don't suppose you were in training with someone with the initials of JT, were you? ...it's just that he just finished, and happened to go up to the Canyon... just a hunch...:)
 
sopdan said:
I don't suppose you were in training with someone with the initials of JT, were you? ...it's just that he just finished, and happened to go up to the Canyon... just a hunch...:)
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Oh you know him?

/Charlie Sheen in Ferris Bueller's Day Off
 
Van_Hoolio said:
Yea I just finished ground training at XJT, waiting for IOE. XJT had rented the CAE EMB-145 sim in PHX for us, since theirs are too busy. It was actually right by the ATP office at Williams Gateway.

Mike
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And thus right by where I work!
 
Bog said:
Now THAT is funny. XJT pilots using a sim owned by MAG.

Who ever saw that coming...
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I'm pretty sure it's CAE's sim. The techs wore CAE shirts; it's in a building with a bunch of ASU & MAPD classrooms. The Mesa guys had worse sim times than we did, anyway.
 
If I recall (and Wheelsup can better confirm this I think) MAG leases the sim from CAE. They do provide the classroom space and all that (or maybe ASU does) but CAE has the sim there.
 
Ok, let's clarify. For all intents and purposes, that sim (and the CRJ sim in the same building) are known as Mesa's sims. It's the same as how the CRJ sim in DEN used to be known (and I believe still is) as Air Whisky's. Same as how the CRJ, J41, and DoJet sims that used to be in IAD were known as the ACA sims. Does the airline actually physcially own the sim? No. Do they have a long-term lease / agreement with CAE or FlightSafety on the sim, thereby getting lower hourly rates and slightly higher priority in scheduling? Yes.

So, if you want to get technical, no that's not Mesa's sim. However, for all intents and purposes, since the majority of its users are Mesa / Freedom pilots, and the sim is located in a Mesa building, it can be called Mesa's sim.
 
Bog said:
If you'd worked at either carrier for the last 7 years, you'd find it "funny."
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Hmmm...maybe. I'd also find it funny if the sim was actually owned by Mesa Air Group like you said it was in reply #9, but it's not, so I don't. The building is part of Airzona State University's Polytechnic Campus which does have the program with MAPD, and I'm sure Mesa's pilots use the sim a lot, but that's about the limit of it.
 
Bog said:
It's the same as how the CRJ sim in DEN used to be known (and I believe still is) as Air Whisky's
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I think it was moved to the CAE in CLT.

Not that it matters though. :D

I didn't work at ASU, but what Bog says is true for my current company - they have a long term contract with CAE to exclusively operate a CRJ200 sim but can "rent" it out to other companies if there is down time, or at least this is my understanding. At one point last year they were actually renting another -200 sim to help with training. I think it went for something like $400/hr, that's what I remember hearing floating around. Not that that matters either :).
 
Re: Pics From Training (MORE PICS)

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Two of us looking out. North of Sedona.


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Between Sedona and Flagstaff.


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Snow and dung-covered path.


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Hole through the earth.


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3 XJT FO's walk into hole in earth.


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Thanks to JT for sending the pics!
 
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