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Also, while you might not get a hardcopy systems manual, we provide the link on the board for access to the PDF file for a softcopy systems manual. Unless you prefer hardcopy, download it to ur ipad/tablet or print out the pages you want to remember.Originally Posted by Red23
CommutAir is a great airline for those looking for a part 121 experience, that is, 121 checkride experience. For your initial training you won't be given study materials or paper cockpits beforehand. Then when you get there, you will never be given a systems manual. You will eventually be given an AOM and GOM. However, the GOM primarily references the Dash 8 and the AOM will reference the 145LR and 145XR without making delineations between the two. CommutAir only flies the XR. Have fun memorizing! Once you get to your oral, you will have a wonderful experience of not being sure what you're supposed to know, realizing you memorized incorrect information from the AOM, and you will fail miserably. Back to training for you! While you're back in the windowless, dark room listening to a 70 year old man read powerpoint slides that sounds like the teacher in Charlie Brown, you'll realize that your instructor has never flown the 145 before nor has he ever flown at CommutAir. You will ask other pilots what they have studied and they will tell you to study ExpressJet materials called Outer Marker. You'll show up to your oral again with all the information you need to pass. Congratulations! You survived CommutAir's training program by (1) not listening to a word your instructor says, (2) ignoring the majority of the information provided to you by CommutAir, and (3) utilizing ExpressJet's training material. Not only do you have a fresh ATP and type rating, you also have two 121 checkride experiences and a great story for those mainline TMAAT you failed questions. Take that people with perfect PRIAs.
Later this year, everything will be on company issued ipad anyway so...