Originally Posted by
Nyflier
As a senior captain, check airman, and APD, I can tell you that they will have someone be seat support for training. It’s up to you to study with classmates outside of the sim and IPT’s. I feel like there’s more to this story. What do you think happens when there’s an odd number of people in class? Or when your partner fails? The training department does what they can. You have to put in the effort. Not having a partner is fairly common.
We had a guy in class who’s partner left after systems for a new job, he had a variety of different seat supports. Other IPT instructors, guys going back to the line, new hires moving into to training department. He did just fine because he took the time to prepare. One guy that didn’t have a partner from the beginning and he passed as well. Personally my sim partner started to struggle once we hit sims and I had to go into this guys checkride with seat support, and I made it out alive
