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Old 03-21-2012 | 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by sandrich
Id say out of the 14 hours flying the sim, 8 of it was single engine. It really varies from instructor to instructor, and you'll have probably 3 or 4 different ones. To get signed off for the checkride, theres 137 areas you have to have satisfactorily completely at some point in the training. You'll experience every single type of annunciator/failure/error from GPWS, dual engine flameout, to a simple Cabin Door. Sometimes they will give you a failure, you identify, then they take it away, just to show you what it looks like. Others they make you troubleshoot and fly/shoot an approach with. There is 1 or 2 NDB approaches, some raw data, and LPV approaches. If theres one or two areas that I'd say were stressed the most, it is the V1 cuts and nonprecision approaches (specifically single engine). Trying to climb out of a V1 cut with a stuck gear, stuck flaps, and a non-feathering propellor is a b**ch.
I am assuming all of this is the sim portion in MCO, not in the Frasca?
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