Originally Posted by
RockyBoy
That's what I did for initial as well. Every day after class I went for a run then to dinner with the guys, and studied for maybe 1/2 an hour.
When I went to bus training after the merger I called NATCO to see what to do to get ready for training and the guy told me to study NOTHING before day one or it would screw me up. I think there was one limitation and like 3 boldface that my 8 year old could memorize in 10 seconds so I had those down. No LOD at the time on that fleet so I didn't look at a single thing. Best training cycle I have ever been through in my life. Now we have screwed that program up though so who knows how it is now.
it has changed quite a bit since then. I had the same experience as you, but now they want you to know everything when you show up it seems like. I've been through 3 other training programs since NATCO and it's definitely skewed toward the pilot teaching himself nearly everything before showing up. It's sad really