Originally Posted by Da40Pilot

Study for the ATP written all over again and there is no reason you won't pass. The people that have failed were the ones that relied solely on the gouge based on rote memorization and didn't really study much at all.

Read the commercial/instrument jepp on all the different RNAV approaches and how they differ from an ILS. Study 121 regs.

I actually made a study list for myself of things I am focusing on, and I compiled this from the little we know of the newest gouges and the previous gouges - hopefully this will help out many:

1. Swept Wing Aerodynamics
2. Study KDCA LDA GPS, VOR, DME Jepp Plates + Taxi Diagram + Nummy 2 Arrival. Know how to brief each plate in detail. Don't leave any of the critical items out.
3. RVSM
4. Compressor Stalls (know what they are, how to avoid them and what causes them).
5. Research RAIM
6. Circling Minimums vs. Straight In and when must Circling Minimums be published.
7. Study all types of runway lighting.
8. Holding Speeds/Leg Lengths/Types of Entries
9. Glide Slope Degrees/Receiver
10. Brieft a STAR and a SID.
11. General Systems Questions from the latest twin you flew the most.
12. Be able to read and decode a TAF/Metar
13. Explain VDP and PDP and the mental math for descent planning.
14. Explain what you do when you hit turbulence.
15. MEA, MSA etc...all those altitudes.
16. Icing, Type of Fluids, Hold Over Times
17. 121 Oxygen Rules
18. Class Bravo and Class C dimensions and speeds.

If I missed anything, feel free to chime in.

I'll get you guys more info after my interview in a few days. Keeping my fingers crossed it goes well.