Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
How do you washout of newhire RJ training? FMS, Autopilot, flight director all available, and with approaches loaded out of the box. Follow the profiles and callouts, how hard can it be? I have a hard time believing people fail this stuff. Must really be the wrong line of work to not be able to pass this.
I think it's the attention to detail. On the ERJ the max imbalance is 800lbs, and if you crossfeed the engines, get distracted with something else then you can get back to within 100lbs, and keep going to 800+ the otherway. The second you hit 801, you failed the ride. Stuff like that...