Decent Rest During Training

kellwolf said:
So, you're saying the call outs, checklists, flows and profiles were the same at Colgan as they are at Pinnacle? Not buying it. You had to practice and learn the CRJ stuff at some point, doesn't matter if you flew a Seminole or a Saab.
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I think the hardest transition to airline crew flying is not necesssarily the flying...but learning and executing the strictly choreographed verbage that goes along with each profile and/or procedure.

The standardization is amazing though. It's what enables two pilots who have never met before to shake hands and an hour later fly a couple of hundred people over a thousand miles. Each person knows exactly what the other person is going to do.
 
"Captains' type rides don't have an oral. Their written test (which everyone has a copy of) counts as an oral... weird, huh?"

Sounds like AQP. We have no oral (only a written) for F/O's in the 757/767 program and rumor has it that Capts are going to that as well. The test would be from a question bank that is "floating around out there". This will reduce the "stress factor", but I'm not sure that's such a great idea. Part of the stress of the oral is actually proving you can deal with the stress of the oral.
 
DE727UPS said:
"Captains' type rides don't have an oral. Their written test (which everyone has a copy of) counts as an oral... weird, huh?"

Sounds like AQP. We have no oral (only a written) for F/O's in the 757/767 program and rumor has it that Capts are going to that as well. The test would be from a question bank that is "floating around out there". This will reduce the "stress factor", but I'm not sure that's such a great idea. Part of the stress of the oral is actually proving you can deal with the stress of the oral.
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... and it takes some discipline to study the systems instead of the test. I think Skywest did a very good job with instructor-led classes and the CBT being supplemental, written test and oral.
 
Damn, that's all the FOs do? I want a raise then, cause I've been busting my ass! :)

My CA introduced me to our FA the other day like this: "This is Steve. He's been saving CA Dumbass here all month." To his credit, he did come off two weeks vacation, go straight into recurrent ground and then had 3 days off.
 
Kingairer said:
I still soak in more if If I sleep adequately, even if that means less study time the previous night. B/c if you're tired the next day of training you arent grabbing the material like you should, and then your up trying to grasp it that night, and the cycle begins....Easier said than done though i know.
SALIDA!
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I agree with that. I get stuff in my head the first time when I'm well rested. If I stayed up all night and studied I'd be worn out for the next day and it wouldn't be as worthwhile to sit in groundschool.
 
We had about two full days off in thirty for my initial training at Colgan.

The training schedule was easy, compared to what I had to deal with in college.
 
Seggy said:
The training schedule was easy, compared to what I had to deal with in college.
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Exactly

Training is so much easier because its all one subject versus the tons of random crap you had to do in college.

Only 2 more days of DC-6 groundschool :)
 
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