Originally Posted by
thump
The guy above you bumped a really old thread. He also bumped a post from 2007. It's spam!
In all seriousness though, you don't have to memorize numbers that are listed on our release. An E170/190 rated pilot could end up having to memorize a ton of different numbers that are really wasted time since they are all available on the release paperwork. To illustrate why... between the various E170/175/190s in the fleet, there are at least 4 different max zero fuel weights used, 3 different max takeoff weights, and 3 different landing weights. What would be the scenario where you would need to have any of those numbers memorized for the safe conduct of the flight? The release includes things like BOW, MZFW, and all planned/max weights. The only things you need to memorize is max ramp weight since it's not listed on the release.
Our program here is focusing more on memorizing things that MUST be accomplished from memory for the safe conduct of the flight. E.G. flap speeds, gear speeds, getting your O2 mask on. For everything else, there is little reason for rote memorization.
Makes sense. At Endeavor, we aren't dual qualed on the CR2 and CR9 so the weights we have to know are just for one or the other. The 900, and I assume the E170/175 aren't really weight critical in most situations either. However, they do quiz us on those items in the oral but it's not a big deal to memorize them.