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greaper007 said:
So no one else has a write in for Initial at their airline? I still think that was the most stressful.
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Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh. I had forgotten the ground school on the YS-11A and its systems. Wild frequency, an electrical system designed by some mad man, high and low stop lock-outs on the props.. and then the 727 with the R-42 relay and where essential power really was when you had all 3 generators but selected the APU. And how you knew if the pack trip was due to inlet temps on the ACM or outlet temps. No simple push the button to turn out the light.
 
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Orange Anchor said:
Arrrrrrrrrrrrgggghhh. I had forgotten the ground school on the YS-11A and its systems. Wild frequency, an electrical system designed by some mad man, high and low stop lock-outs on the props.. and then the 727 with the R-42 relay and where essential power really was when you had all 3 generators but selected the APU. And how you knew if the pack trip was due to inlet temps on the ACM or outlet temps. No simple push the button to turn out the light.
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It sounds like the saab's electric system. When I tried to explain it to my dad he said that's nuts, the 737 doesn't have anything like that.

For the record, the initial check ride wasn't the killer. It was all the training and drinking from the fire hose that led up to it. Colgan had this inane idea that we needed to know the exact temperature of countless things, even when they were represented by a green arc or red line. The checkride was ok except that I had Honan the Barbarian who always made sure you felt like you knew nothing at the end of it.
 
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minitour said:
Sorry, but I don't care who you are, how you fly, how well you prepared, how professional you look, how well your lesson plan was prepared or how you taught it...

If you jump into an oral with an examiner who has been fighting with his wife over the new wallpaper....it's going to be a loooooooooooooooooong day. Pass or not.

-mini
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Very true!

The unfortunate thing with FSDO's is they usually don't know their own regulations or practical test standards.

I've had a couple students fail outside the PTS. Fun!
 
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greaper007 said:
It sounds like the saab's electric system. When I tried to explain it to my dad he said that's nuts, the 737 doesn't have anything like that.
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The Boeing electrical sys is fairly simple as are most systems ONCE you understand the logic used to design the distribution of power. I did like the electrical heirarchy on the McDougs but the cross-tie lock-out was always something for the oral.

Colgan had this inane idea that we needed to know the exact temperature of countless things, even when they were represented by a green arc or red line. The checkride was ok except that I had Honan the Barbarian who always made sure you felt like you knew nothing at the end of it.
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PI was like that. It was an engineer's course. And we also had our share of SkyGods who were going to show you that you knew nothing and they were the resident keepers of all knowledge. Fortunately, that changed and for the most part, those sim-wizards were weeded out.
 
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The hardest and at the same time the most satisfying was the CFI Initial. By far.
 
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ryanmickG said:
Very true!

The unfortunate thing with FSDO's is they usually don't know their own regulations or practical test standards.

I've had a couple students fail outside the PTS. Fun!
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Thats when you fight it, and you see the examiner come back and hand the student a ticket lol. I have seen that a few times its so funny. Nothing bothers me more than when a student fails outside the PTS.
 
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+1 for Initial CFI, although I don't have my ATP yet...
 
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...if you do it in a sim. ATP ride in the airplane on a hardball IFR day is a good workout.
 
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The ATP was a little challenging, only because I only had one day to get used to an airplane I'd never flown before.
 
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Well screw you guys. The ATP wasn't easy here. :)
 
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