Originally Posted by
SevereClear1
As a guy who left awac during Sim the biggest problem there is the gaps in training... I liked it a lot but by the time I could have taken the check rode my oral knowledge was shot, but I could fly the plane, there were 4 months between systems and the sim, I opted out of the check ride and quit the next day. Only 3/8 guys in my class are flying the line now. Awac does a good job in training, but their time line is ****ed up. You never know when you are going to sim and usually you have 1-2 days notice
I'll agree that the gap between training an extra training is counter productive to what is it is trying to accomplish. However, passing the oral is 100% memorization of limitations and IAC, systems knowledge questions are mostly an afterthought. Not to be blunt but if you didn't pass an oral you didn't memorize the stuff everyone from day one told you to memorize. Plus during youre four months off you're being paid to doing nothing, you're not sitting reserve, or being junior manned or any of the other BS that happens when you blow right through sims, so opening a book prob ain't too much to ask.
Definitely not trying to defend the training process as a whole, so I'll say once again that the gap between training and retraining/extra training is more harmful them helpful. Just complaining about lack of knowledge for the oral is kinda annoying.