Originally Posted by
GregSa
Wow everyone thanks for replying.
To be specific I fly Mike model Blackhawks that's have a flight director and works very well for instrument flying. DME is a thing inside that aircraft. Once turned final it will capture course and glide slope of an ILS and hold it very well. I refrain from making turns using the cyclic and just turn knobs on the flight director and leave the computer to hold airspeed and altitude for me. As
Opposed to the Lima model IFR is a breeze and very enjoyable. This is just some of the stuff it does. However we dont do RNAV approaches. GPS is in the aircraft is corruptable.
Me personally as a pilot I LOVE instruments and I would fly IFR all the time if I could. There are some things I will need to review such as STARs. I did SIDs at flight school however I will review then again. Idk if this is the attitude or mindset the airlines are looking for but it is mine. Im worried not having flown an airplane and hoping to learn a particular airframe in 3 months is enough time. But I look back on it. That's about what I had in flight school anyway. I am allowed to utilize the sim to practice procedures and callouts in my time off yes? Or do I need that flight sim software in my room or was that just a good idea?
When people do fail what happens to them? Are they removed from the course? Told thank you for being here but you need to leave now?
Other than a cheap small paper of the cockpit layout used to practice chair flying and flows in your hotel room, you will not get any actual sim to practice on. They’ll give you a few days of computerized cockpit layout training but even that is really to brush up on what you should know from chair flying yourself. If you use any of the cockpit training events in the course to “learn” something, especially sim, you are already behind. You should already know what you’re doing as far as procedures and cockpit flows. They won’t remove you until they know for sure you are hopeless after taking a lot of sim sessions. Most guys just resign on their own knowing they’re too far behind.