Passed the systems oral check this morning. It was scheduled for 2 hours, and we were done in about 45 minutes. Basically, no surprises. Everyone was pretty straight forward about what we needed to know, and there were no surprises. We actually probably knew much deeper into the systems than was necessary. At Pinnacle, I had to know what bleed stage the starter was off, what things were connected to the accessorty gear box, which bleeds provided heat for the anti-ice, etc, etc. Here....it was "Well, it goes off the on side bleeds, then the off side bleeds, then the APU." I even asked which bleed stages did what, and it was more of a "Hell, I'd have to ask Tech Ops about all that." Basically, if you know what switches do what, then that's really all you need to know. I think anyone coming from a regional won't buy it. I know hardly anyone in my class did. When they told us "Just know this," we were all behaving like abused dogs in a shelter. The nice person came to adopt us, but we still weren't sure if we could trust them.
After that, we got an intro to the FMS on the 190. The way this is set up here it flows VERY well. Basically, know where to start, fill out all the stuff on the left, then all the stuff on the right, next page, repeat until you come to the last page, hit the bottom right button, repeat. Follow that, and you'll fill out 99% of what you need in the FMS. Then we did some intercepting and tracking. It's much smarter than the FMS in the CRJ when it comes to things like that. We were the lucky ones and did the FMS training in one of the sims rather than an FTD, so I got to fool around with the HUD. That thing is awesome!
Tomorrow starts the "Procedures" phase, and it seems like it's going to be considerably tougher. This is all FTD work with my sim partner working on flows, call outs and profiles.