R2F's American Eagle Training Updates

Finally! I get to hear from Kellwolf and CrashNburn! :)

Okay, just a little point, and I'm off:

The language barrier will only be hard in the islands where English is not the main language. That's not a problem for most of the Caribbean Island destinations that Eagle flies to. Off the top of my head, only Dominica, Dominican Republic, Curacao, Aruba, Bonaire, Martinique, St. Maarten, Guadaloupe, and Haiti do not have english as their main language. However, at the airports, most people do speak it (otherwise AA would require bilinguals on those routes :)).

Keep up the good work, gentlemen! A few more months and I hopefully will tell my story.

Neil
 
Most of the people in Aruba speak English you do run into a few that don't but for the most part everyone in Oranjestad and the surrounding area speaks English which is where the airport and most of the hotels are located. If you head down to San Nicolas or outside of Oranjestad though you will run into English, Spanish, Papiamento, Dutch, and Portuguese. Everyone is really nice though and the locals that are bilingual will usually jump in and help you if you need it.
 
Dang Kell, you have a real nice instructor :sarcasm: . Keep up the good work. Don't worry about the stalls. We all have had an off day in the sim.
 
Hasn't been much going on since scheduling appears to hate my sim partner and I. We had three sims cancelled last week, so we may or may not be able to get them made up before our checkride date. We'll get them made up before the checkride, it might just get pushed back. Ask me how ticked I am at that. Oh well, livin the dream.

Did Sim 4 tonight which was a lesson in flying the CRJ with one engine and no autopilot. Did normal pushback and takeoff, re-positioned to FL250 where we promptly experienced a rapid decompression. Did the emergency descent down to 4,000 and had a right engine fire. Got that under control and got briefed and set up for the ILS 30R into MSP. Got another failure.....the autopilot. It's a handful flying this thing with a fuel imbalance (the auto crossfeed can't keep up with the amount of fuel you're burning). Did a single engine landing to a full stop.

Re-position on 30R for takeoff, and had an engine failure right at V1. Followed the SE climb out profile up to 4000, then started getting vectors for the 30L back to MSP. AP failed again. Then we had a truck pull out on the runway, and we did a single engine go around. Apparently, the winds in MSP suck since we were now getting vectored for the ILS runway 4. Oh yeah, glideslope out of service, too. ILS aren't too bad in the CRJ, but non-precision approaches REALLY give you a feel for how easy it is to fall behind this jet, especially ones with multiple step down fixes. Shot the LOC 4 into MSP, another single engine landing. Then we took a 10 minute break, and I did it all over again from the non-flying pilot side.

Tomorrow looks to be more fun with single engine flying, and ALL the approaches are non-precision, one of which is the dreaded VOR/DME 18R into MEM.
 
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