R2F's American Eagle Training Updates

I think the answer for just about all of them is:

"Call maintenance!"

I hope you got the RTU inop question - that's a good one and a lot of people would get that one wrong. They would all go to comm 3 (wrong!!!)
 
congrats man. It was a good day for the both of us. I passed my sim. messed up a little but still passed. no i am off until friday, goin down to ft. myers for aircraft training.

any word on the breakdown of the new hire class??

adam
 
crashmbern said:
congrats man. It was a good day for the both of us. I passed my sim. messed up a little but still passed. no i am off until friday, goin down to ft. myers for aircraft training.

any word on the breakdown of the new hire class??

adam
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And a HUGE CONGRATS to you too, Adam!!! :nana2:

Irony of all Ironies, Adam (crashmbern) and I (both long-time JC members) had our checkride/oral respectively...not only on the same day....but at the exact same TIME!!!

Will wonders never cease???? :D

OH - and Adam - looks like you now have another 6 below you on "The Rock", buddy. I, happily, now have 4 below me.!!! :bandit:

The rest of the 16 new hires all went to BOS.

JT - yup, "Call Mx" woudda been my answer too in reality. ;) If you ever get out to DFW give me a call. Cell phone is still the same.

Kelvin - see you and JH on Friday! Keep in mind, I've moved hotels so we're gonna have to come up with some place to meet up.
 
You should have said, "Load Manifest? We just got EWBS!"

You have no idea how happy I am not to be filling those out for every leg. Ugh. Especially when you do 5-6 a day. But then again, you won't have to worry about that either! haha!

Congrats!
 
Congrats Stan and enjoy the SIMS!

JH called me today to let me know about friday... I start a trip then... but I'll be there when you finish your final checkride! :)

Bob
 
yes now there are 12 atr guys coming in behind me. shouldn't be sitting reserve to long. good luck stan.

adam
 
Mr_Creepy said:
I hope you got the RTU inop question - that's a good one and a lot of people would get that one wrong. They would all go to comm 3 (wrong!!!)
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The correct answer is the FMS radio page, no?
 
Correcto. Works well for when they give you a new tx code in flight. The only problem with that is that the input only will go to the left side, even if the transponder is working off the right.
 
Day 21
Started sim today. All I can say is WOOOOOOO!!!! MAN what a plane!!!

Set up was this:
Flight from DFW to OKC (first three lessons are FTD= meaning not full motion - just simulated motion= meaning thing doesn't move, just the visuals).

Did everthing:
First flight of day Cockpit safety scan/flow
Establish power
Initialize FMS
Origination flow
Get ATIS/clearance (these are probably a little out of order)
Program FMS
Before Start checklist
Engine start/pushback
Taxi flow/checklist
Before takeoff flow/checklist
"Normal" takeoff. (I was flying - wasn't really "normal" :D )
Level off at FL200
Get acquainted with the autopilot - what to do and what not to do.
Descent
LOC approach into OKC
"Broke out" somewhere around 500 ft or so - wasn't looking. :D
Go visual and "land".

Went visual and got a little squirrelly, but corrected and "landed" okay.

Tomorrow = more of the same. Flight back to DFW from OKC with a missed approach then back around to landing...... time permitting.

Having a blast!! Lots of work, but still loving it!

R2F
 
Does the sim have sound too? Is there a muffled whine of the engines in the background with power changes?
 
Can't speak much for the CRJ, but at least in the ERJ, the airplane flies so much better than the sim. I was all over the place in the sim the first few times. I finally got the hang of it and it was ok. The first time I got in the airplane it was a totally different world. At XJT, we did FAM flights (3 T/O and landings in an empty airplane) when I was going through training (they don't do it anymore). We did ours in an empty 135. You want to talk about a rocket. It was awesome. Even my first flight with PAX was cool. The planes fly so much better than the sims. I had forgotten how bad the sims fly when I did my PC this year. It was a mess at first.

Congrats on everything and good luck with the rest of your training. Its all worth it out on the line. I wouldn't trade my worst day flying for anything else.
 
Tues passed my systems test, memory items (all 25 of them) and limitations test. Now, it's on to CPTs.

As far as the FMS tuning, no problems with left/right for us. We only have one....

Low and behold, I have about 40 people below me in company seniority and at least 20 below me in MEM. The other classes haven't been awarded bases yet.
 
kellwolf said:
.Low and behold, I have about 40 people below me in company seniority and at least 20 below me in MEM. The other classes haven't been awarded bases yet.
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Awesome, great timing or what?
 
Captain_Bob said:
Congrats Stan and enjoy the SIMS!

JH called me today to let me know about friday... I start a trip then... but I'll be there when you finish your final checkride! :)

Bob
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SIMS!! I so hate the box. I despise (sp?) it. When i was instructing i got a chance to fly an MD-11 full motion sim. it was awesome. but if i had the opportunity again, i might pass on it. But then again if its a new plane, and i aint being graded with engine failures, electrical failures, loss of cabin pressure, and etc,.....it might be fun.
 
Day 22

Today's lesson was to add more piecesto the puzzle.

All the aforementioned flows & checklists & FMS happy good stuff....normal takeoff, etc.

That's where all "normalcy" ended.

En route, we dealt with the following failures:

DC bus failure = no means of extinquishing an engine/cargo fire - elected to land at nearest airport which seemed to satisfy the Master. :D

Loss of all AC power = memory item = "ADG manual deploy handle.....PULL" Eventually got all power restored with the APU, did the ADG override thing, and booyah - back up and running.

Other minor failures, then it was time for the approach.

Today's flight plan took us from OKC back to DFW.....LOC approach to 18R, down to about 75-100 ft. AGL and "Eagle Flight 801....go around."

I have to say, after all the review I did last night of the profiles, that was a non-event (funny how preparation makes otherwise stressful situations non-events. :D).

Came back around and the wx had miraculously gone visual. ;) Shot the visual back to 18R....lined up beautifully! Had all my speeds nailed - set up nicely.....got down to (I kid you not) about 20 ft. AGL and "Eagle Flight 801....go around."

CRAP!

Did it all again - just like before .... and got a "Nicely done! Very nice!" from the Master. :bandit:

This time, Master took us to DAL where we shot the visual to ....umm...31???? I forget.

Lined up, cross the threshold, mains touch, nose touches, thrust reverser deployed and I hear "don't forget the brakes".... I apply the brakes and .....WOOOHOOOOOOO!.....hold on Lady! We goin' for a riiiiiide! :D

Had that been real life, I need not say...we woulda been on the news. :o

I got a little batty with the brakes. Gonna have to nip that in the bud pronto.

More tomorrow.

R2F
 
I agree with aloft, though I of course can't verify that it is true for him.

Keep at it you guys. I want to make sure I get a flight on one of your airplanes someday Stan!
 
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