Originally Posted by Electra

Well, I don't know your background or experience, but for anyone coming to newhire training: Learn your limitations and memory items first, you'll be tested on them early on. Many people blow the test purely by leaving off the units when they fill in the blanks with the numbers. (I almost did!) The first day will be a lot of housekeeping and orientation. The instructors will supply the training materials so don't fret about getting ahead before you get to SLC and learning anything other than what was sent in your welcome packet.

You gotta make it past the indoc and systems tests first before you get to FTD and sim, but definitely do find the paper tiger mockup upstairs at the hotel and get to know the panel layouts. Getting your flows down right away is essential, as is knowing how the checklists read. Your time in sim is limited and the emphasis is on procedures and system failures, you'll be expected to have flows and checklists dialed in already. Knowing how to brief an approach chart and being instrument current will help you in sim, and the more the better. My partner and I got thrown an NDB approach on our sim checkride and neither of us had done one in a long time. That was, um, fun.

Your real first job is to make friends with your classmates and secure yourself a smart sim partner! Have a reasonable amount of fun and remember that if you put in the work, you will be rewarded. We have good people in our training department and they want you to succeed.