R2F's American Eagle Training Updates

B767 said:
Congratulations again! Do you have to see a certain number of flights from the jumpseat before you begin IOE or on Tues. at o'dark-thirty do YOU fly the passengers right off the bat?
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No jumseating for this guy. We go straight to the right seat...flying the real plane...with paying pax. :)
 
crashmbern said:
stan whats your IOE schedule like???
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April 18
DFW TUL
TUL DFW
DFW TUL
TUL DFW
DFW DSM

That's right folks! My first night as an airline pilot will be spent in....Des Moine. :rawk:

April 19
DSM DFW
DFW LBB
LBB DFW

April 20
Repeat same sequence as the 18th

April 21
Repeat same sequence as the 19th

HOME!!!!

April 24
ORD HPN
HPN ORD
ORD XNA

April 25
XNA ORD

HOME!!!!

Then.....on Reserve....forever. ;)
 
awesome. Makes me excited to come to eagle! You must be stoked to fly your first leg tomorrow. I be flyin out of DFW tomorrow too, yet i'll be over on the E terminal. Have fun

Chris.
 
1. Bite
2. Me!
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Funny thing is, St. Thomas isn't even one of our nicer overnights. While all the rooms do look out right on the beach, it's just a Best Western :sarcasm: . My favorite so far has to be either La Romana, DR (we stay at a massive golf resort that apparently regularly costs $600/night) or the Barbados Hilton. And St. Kitts was pretty nice, and allegedly (as an ominous sign at the hotel indicates) the island is overrun by monkeys.

But then again, I haven't yet overnighted in Aruba, Bonaire, Curacao, St Croix, Antigua, or Canouan, which are supposed to be decent. :)

Congrats on finishing up--get crew scheduling on speed dial asap! I'm headed to Miami in june, and hopefully will be joining you in Dallas before the end of the year.
 
The monkeys are a blast at SKB! I know a captain who brought one home in his flight bag.

Best overnights were SDQ and STX when I was there. SDQ is an all inclusive resort (includes beer!) and STX is the Caravelle, which is the nicest little hotel in the caribbean. Be sure and go next door to Lizards - a great roof top bar/bistro.

La Romana was a standup when I went there, not enought time to enjoy Casa de Campo.

I miss the SJU overnights - they were great!
 
Mr_Creepy said:
The monkeys are a blast at SKB! I know a captain who brought one home in his flight bag.
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Wha?? I'd love to hear that conversation with the significant other.

"There's a monkey in that bag."

"What?"

"I brought a monkey home."

"..."

"Open it."

The bag moves.

Oh and congrats on your training guys (you know who you are). Love the thread!
 
I know a captain who brought one home in his flight bag.
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Don't give me any ideas. I think I'll have to change my bids for next month now. And find somewhere to buy a large net.


Unfortunately, we have few overnights longer than 10-11 hours anymore, which is tragic considering where we're staying. Up in Miami there's a couple of 18-hr ones left, but down here the only longer ones are at the day-VFR stations like Nevis and Canouan.
 
He should still be there. He was #1 in seniority at Executive when I was there. Eric F. Union rep.

Ask him about it!
 
Well, i haven't been keeping track of the thread... but sounds like one of our main guys is up off the floor and outta the house!

You ROCK Stan...do good job now eh?! :)

now it's time to get Kellwolf to up and move outta the house already! ;)


*ps...we don't really mean "goaway" :)
 
But....but....it's so CHEAP living in my parents' house. :)

Checkride is scheduled for May 8th or 9th assuming I don't get any other sims cancelled.

Sim one was pretty much what I expected. Normal checklists and flows, takeoffs, climbs, stalls, descents, multiple ILS approaches to landings, after landing check, switch pilots, do it all again in the other seat, then do the shutdown flow, exit and terminating checklists. All in all a good learning experience that filled in a lot of CRM gaps.

Sim 2 was a different story. We once again did the safety check, flight deck inspection, before start flows and checks, cleared to start flow, after start flow and checks, pushback, taxi flow and checks, etc etc. Threw in some abnormal starts (hot start, hung start, no light off, no starter cutout) then did a normal t/o and climb. Get up to 10K and do the stall profiles. Reposition to FL410 and see how squirrely it is, especially with turbulence. Down to FL350 for unusual attitudes and some yaw damper stuff, and then the fun begin....

I broke the sim. Yeah, you read that right. The instructor wanted to demo what the yaw damper did. So, he told me to stomp on the rudder. I did. CRJ went into an inverted spin, instructor almost came out of his chair, and books hit the floor. Took 20 min to reset, then we picked up. After all that, we did a mach tuck demo (never saw tuck, but I did see mach 0.998). Hand flew the ILS 27 into MEM, go around, then repositioned for the NDB 35 in Pensacola. Landed and switched seats. Did the whole thing again and tacked on the after landing flow and check, shutdown flow and check, and terminating check.

Sim 3 on Friday night covering unpressurized takeoffs and landings as well as cold weather ops.
 
So after the checkride you guys have no time off? I thought it was like the military, 9 weeks of boot camp and then 1 week off! But Stan is already flying the line. Personally i wouldnt mind, fly my ass offf all you want, i'd pay you to let me LOL. Congrats guys!

Hey kellwolf what aircraft are you training in? CRJ? ERJ?
 
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