Originally Posted by
Express pilot
I'm sorry, but that's bad advice. I know you have to do the CD, but it's really a waste of time, getting ground school from a CD on an airplane you have never seen before. You need LOD and Flows down day 1. I remember as a new hire showing up day 1 to FTD and didn't know much of any flows. I got ripped a new one. The way Delta has set up their training you need to show up a little prepared.
That's bad advice? That's how the vast majority of pilots here do it because that's how its structured. And you do not need flows on day one, though it does help to be familiar with them in general. If you RTFP you would have seen that this was a discussion about day one in indoc, not day one in aircraft training. I wasn't advocating showing up cold with only the CD, and why you were spring loaded to manifest that in what I said is a mystery.
Staying late every day
during indoc to practice flows is idiotic IMHO and will result in negative training, over emphasis on trivial things and other bad habits. There will be plenty of time for that.