Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
As it was said before, you need to get the lights on and the APU warming up. That way you and your FA’s can see to do your checks properly and more importantly so you can start warming the old girl up when it’s COLD! You’ll find that warming her up is job number 1 in the morning since she doesn’t like being cold and some of the systems will need a bit of time to work properly.
Makes sense
Originally Posted by
MatchPoint
[COLOR=black][FONT=Verdana]Good luck. SkyWest has an excellent training department and as long as you have the right attitude they will bend over backwards for you.
Yup, I've been very impressed with the training so far. Today we got our first look at the Matrix at FSI, which was a huge help. They're giving all of us unlimited Matrix access throughout Systems. I sat there for 2 hours running the safety check, originating flow, and pre-taxi flows. Just sitting there with various synoptic pages up, closing bus ties and starting and shutting down APUs and swapping bleeds...was tremendously valuable in terms of clarifying how the systems actually work. I've been having trouble figuring out the exact automated sequence that the 10th-stage L/R/ISOL valves and APU LCV go through during engine start, but watching it happen on the Matrix made it all clear.
I did accidentally try to transfer the bleeds to the APU without first having started the APU (during my post-landing check) but fortunately caught myself before I killed the left 10th-stage bleed.
I also had fun..."oh, THIS is why you should never close the DC ESS TIE when you've already closed DC TIE 1 and DC TIE 2...and THIS is what really happens if you're dumb enough to turn off IDG1, IDG2, and the APU GEN." It was supremely helpful, and it's to Skywest's credit that they worked a deal with FSI to get us all extra time in the Matrix(es.)