I am just going to throw this out there.
I run into two basic types of students coming through transition training. Those that are prepared and sail through the course and those who are not prepared and ***** and whine about how horrible their training was.
I'm going to crack the code on how to be the prepared guy, and it's really simple.
Systems;
Do your home work, Pelysis (SP) CBT's whatever. That is the stuff I kind of breeze through. Start paying attention and asking questions once you sit down with your FTI. Do the systems reviews several times during the week, Sit down with your sim partner and quiz/work with each other.
Flows;
Memorize the location of each item to be checked. Get the flow pattern memorized in your brain. Then go back and one at a time look at each item in the expanded section of the FM so you understand each step in detail.
ESKV, listen to your FTI. Nuff said.
Procedures phase;
Have your flows to an end state knowledge level BEFORE you show up for procedures.
Here is key to success on procedures. Know your call outs FM Chap 3 it's right there in the front of the chapter. Profiles, all are in FM chapter 3.It doesn't have to be perfect but you do have to have a good working knowledge of call outs and profiles. Takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, non precision, precision approaches. The approach profiles are also in chapter 3 under, approach, precision approach and non precision approach.
How do you know what approach profiles to be familiar with? SIMPLE in our I-pad under
training/qualification/(your aircraft) pilot syllabus. Open that and it tells you exactly what you will be doing for upcoming training period. These are soft balls folks, easy to catch, easy to hit. You just have to know where to find them.
Full flight sim periods and lofts.
Go to your I-Pad Training/Qualification/ Pilot syllabus look to see what you are doing the next day. Review whatever you deem necessary. Use these tools folks and your training will become much, much easier. Hint there are no surprises in the training syllabus. It is done the same way every single time.
As an instructor here are some of the things that just make you shake your head.....
Doesn't know ANY call outs. I'll ask that student to please open his or her flight manual to the call outs pages. Invariably this student doesn't know where it is and can't find it.
Can't find ANYTHING in the I-Pad because they've never used it. Strange but true.
Cops an attitude and wants to argue with the book when they are shown in the flight manual or FOM that they are wrong. "WELL when I flew for the AVG in WW II (or GoJet) that's not how we did it!!"
Assumes that call outs and profiles will be the same as the airplane they are coming from. That is almost NEVER the case. New airplane, new call outs and profiles. PERIOD.
Screws up, blames the sim.
Wants to tell war stories during the briefing or sim. We all love to tell and hear war stories. The sim periods and briefing times are so jam packed now days, this simply is not the time or the place to do it.
Wants to tell me how screwed up the, syllabus, the company, the ISL, the hotel, the van driver, spouse, the pay desk, I-Pad, ETC ETC ETC is. Seriously, first off I can't change any of that. It's a sad truth, but we instructor are not listened to by management either. Second I've got 5 hours worth of crap to stuff into a 4 hour block IF there are no repeats. I simply don't have time for dirty laundry during a training period. And lastly I do love you man I really do BUT I've got my own crap to deal with from the company/at home I seriously don't and nobody else could really care less about your personal drama.
MLM, Iraqi Dinar, "business" offers, currency trading software, commodities trading scams.....REALLY!?! The answer is NO it will always be NO so don't even bring it up, please!!!
In the most basic terms. Do NOT show up to a training session completely unprepared and expect to be spoon fed everything you need to know for today's sim session. When VOR approaches are on the menu you'd BETTER have a basic knowledge of how to set up and fly a VOR approach in THIS airplane the day of the sim. If you spent all of your time at Shotgun's the night before. I respect and appreciate your hobby. But it makes for a miserable training session for you and me the next day.