Originally Posted by
RAHkid94
That assumes a competent and standardized training department, where the people testing you aren’t asking dozens of questions that aren’t covered in the reading. If you only study what they give you, you will fail your oral at ZW. The problem is the “kinder, gentler, we aren’t asking you to build the airplane” mentality has hit Indoc and systems ground but not the examiners.
Find a PRM and some gouges once you’re in the schoolhouse. Study roughly twice the depth they tell you. Right now worry about the ATP written, then hit limitations from FCM vol 2.
My examiner is known as being in the top 2 as hardest. And my oral was simple, expected and shorter than planned. It was exactly what my sim instructor, who is also an examiner, prepared me for. 100% of every boxed limit. 0 non boxed ones. 100% of every memory item on the IAC. 0% of non memory ones. Systems was done using the overhead panel and in terms of what does this switch do - it was practical real world - not memorizing random things. That was already tested in systems. Plus we did the walk around CD. Asked about 25% of what are you looking at here and what are you looking for.
Checkride was spot on to exactly what maneuvers would be expected. 0 surprises.
I had some of most notorious instructors and examiner but yet I had no issues at all passing. This was my first type. First 121. First jet. Was training easy or the checkride a gimme? Absolutely not. It was very challenging and demanding yet I walked into the checkride ready and actually had fun during it. And I like most hate checkrides but awa had prepared me well.
Overall I was impressed with training from atp through now a few recurrents. It is not easy but I would say from my experience anyway it’s fair.