Kellwolf's Major Airline Experience

Lesson 3 in manuevers. Tonight was some of the same as yesterday. Low vis takeoffs, V1 cuts, SE approaches (hand flown), SE go arounds, a non-precision approach tossed in, and windshear and stall recoveries. Tomorrow is refining most of that, plus introduces emergency descents, rejected takeoffs and evacs and flap/slat failures. The "manuevers validation" is on Monday morning, so I essentially have one more sim lesson and the "stage check."
 
jtrain609 said:
They're cool and unique and "ZOMG LOOK AT ME I'M RIDING A BIKE BUT I'M REALLY FLYING A PLANE!" until about the 5th leg of the day with a gusty crosswind.
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I'm not even going to pretend I know what you guys are talking about....

Last night was the last sim before the "manuevers validation" stage check, so there was a lot of polishing. We did high altitude stalls, an emergency descent complete with masks and emergency checklists, an RNP approach and more V1 cuts, SE approaches (hand flown) SE go arounds, non-precision approaches, etc, etc. I went in for some extra landings since my crosswind landings were sucking pretty hard. Sim partner gave me a tip using a couple of things on the HUD, and all of a sudden I was right on center line at the 1000-1500' marks. That was just what I needed. Nice having an experienced guy that knows the airplane as a sim partner. :)
 
Nice write up, sounds almost exactly like the training at one of the DCI E170 operators. Especially the comment about not having prior airline experience would make one be lost. Awesome if you know what to do, probably hard if you are fresh meat to the 121 world.
 
Passed the maneuvers validation today, so no more V1 cuts for a while unless something goes horribly wrong. :)

Basically, showed up this morning, went through some walkaround slides (first time in a lesson, but we had a video they gave us for homework) and into the sim. Normal takeoff, RNAV departure, TCAS RA, vectors around for a non-precision approach to a go around. Repo back on the ground for a low vis takeoff with an engine fire at V1, vectored back around for a SE hand flown ILS to a landing. Tossed a CAT III approach and a rejected takeoff with an evac in there at some point. Also did a precision-like RNAV approach with the flaps failed followed by a brake fire on the landing into another evac. That was it. All in all, I thought it wasn't too bad. Definitely less stressful than other PCs or checkrides I've been on.

Tomorrow we start the LOFT phase with a simulated flight going from BTV-JFK-BOS during the winter. Pretty sure we're going to get icing, maybe some de-ice checklists tossed in. Two more LOFTs after that, and then the evaluation LOFT and I'm done with training down in Orlando.
 
jtrain609 said:
They're cool and unique and "ZOMG LOOK AT ME I'M RIDING A BIKE BUT I'M REALLY FLYING A PLANE!" until about the 5th leg of the day with a gusty crosswind.
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But... they were on the Concorde!!! Concorde = winning. Concorde > jtrain609. :D

Really enjoying your thread kellwolf. Thanks for keeping us up to date, sounds like a blast!
 
kellwolf said:
Lesson 3 in manuevers. Tonight was some of the same as yesterday. Low vis takeoffs, V1 cuts, SE approaches (hand flown), SE go arounds, a non-precision approach tossed in, and windshear and stall recoveries. Tomorrow is refining most of that, plus introduces emergency descents, rejected takeoffs and evacs and flap/slat failures. The "manuevers validation" is on Monday morning, so I essentially have one more sim lesson and the "stage check."
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I want a HUD when I grow up.

inigo88 said:
But... they were on the Concorde!!! Concorde = winning. Concorde > jtrain609. :D
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Oh that's right. That's the only thing "fast" about an Embraer airplane, ever! :D
 
kellwolf said:
Passed the maneuvers validation today, so no more V1 cuts for a while unless something goes horribly wrong. :)

Basically, showed up this morning, went through some walkaround slides (first time in a lesson, but we had a video they gave us for homework) and into the sim. Normal takeoff, RNAV departure, TCAS RA, vectors around for a non-precision approach to a go around. Repo back on the ground for a low vis takeoff with an engine fire at V1, vectored back around for a SE hand flown ILS to a landing. Tossed a CAT III approach and a rejected takeoff with an evac in there at some point. Also did a precision-like RNAV approach with the flaps failed followed by a brake fire on the landing into another evac. That was it. All in all, I thought it wasn't too bad. Definitely less stressful than other PCs or checkrides I've been on.

Tomorrow we start the LOFT phase with a simulated flight going from BTV-JFK-BOS during the winter. Pretty sure we're going to get icing, maybe some de-ice checklists tossed in. Two more LOFTs after that, and then the evaluation LOFT and I'm done with training down in Orlando.
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Congrats!

What's your CAT III letter and minima? IIIb and 300RVR? Does the E190 autoland? .
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
Congrats!

What's your CAT III letter and minima? IIIb and 300RVR? Does the E190 autoland? .
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Yeah, IIIb and 300RVR. It CAN autoland, but not at jetBlue. Not sure if it's a certification thing or if it's just an option we didn't pick up. All the systems stuff has autoland references, though.


Yesterday was LOFT #1

Started out in Burlington, took off going to JFK and did a CAT III approach to a contaminated runway. Taxi to the gate and get set up for a JFK-BOS leg. Push back, de-ice and did a contaminated low vis takeoff (600 RVR). Enroute to BOS, they shut the runway down for snow removal, so we had to run through some hoops in the hold to make sure we had the gas, otherwise we were looking at our alternate of BDL. Got cleared in for a CAT I to mins, taxiied to the gate and done.

This morning was LOFT #2.

Started with a BOS-JFK leg. Normal takeoff, RNAV departure then an RNP approach to 22L in JFK. Taxi to the gate. The rest of the lesson was oceanic training with HF radio set up, nav set up, nav checks enroute, looking at the charts for frequencies, HF radio tests and position reports. After we had that down, we did some oceanic weather deviations and an emergency divert due to an engine failure. That was it. It was nice learning a LOT of new stuff since I've never done the oceanic stuff.

Tomorrow is the last LOFT before the final eval.
 
Is it JetBlue that has that new constant decent approach into JFK? I remember reading a USA Today article about it a few months ago.
 
Steve, yeah. My class lucked out, and all of the E190 guys are paired with CAs going through training. The A320 guys are mostly FO/FO crews, and the entire next class of E190 pilots are FO/FO crew. It's made the sim sessions flow a LOT better since we aren't switching seats.

Sean, there's an RNP 13L approach that makes it a lot more efficient rather than the VOR/DME 13L approach. The Airbus can fly it. The E190 can't right now due to a restriction of the automation on the go around. It's a planned upgrade on the avionics for the near future, though.
 
[quote="kellwolf, post: 2017366, member: 1274"There's an RNP 13L approach that makes it a lot more efficient rather than the VOR/DME 13L approach. The Airbus can fly it. The E190 can't right now due to a restriction of the automation on the go around. It's a planned upgrade on the avionics for the near future, though.[/quote]

I'm curious to know what the restriction is, and what the upgrade will do?
 
kell, thanks for the updates. Once you are typed, is this a full type rating or a SIC priviledges only? Also, you guys don't do any circling IMC? There's a VMC restriction on the license?
 
Nick said:
I'm curious to know what the restriction is, and what the upgrade will do?
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Not sure, but at my company, the A320 recently got new software updated so on a gro around, G/A TRK automatically changes to NAV to follow the published route. No intervention required. Before, you'd have to push the heading knob on a go around to get it to switch from GA TRK to NAV. Now, it's one less thing to do, and I believe this is what may be required for some of those RNP approaches. kellwolf can confirm though.

With the software changes and our A320 sim certified for RNP, we're finally now getting RNP training starting in January onwards. That's why I believe the go around autoswitch to NAV mode is a requirement for certain RNP approaches.
 
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