Originally Posted by
Soxfan1
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.
I’m glad you had a good experience, but I’d venture that if you went through several recurrents already you don’t have a very good idea on what new hire ground school is or isn’t covering now.
When I went through they told my class to study *nothing* for systems besides FTM vol 2 and FCM section 2. If you’ve read FTM vol 2 lately you’ll find lots of key info missing People were getting chastised for reading other materials or asking deeper questions. Over half my class went into ATR for oral knowledge issues. This wasn’t my first airline, and I’ve never failed a training event. I passed my first time here but it was through intensive study of things they explicitly told us not to study. Our sim instructors were shocked at the level of knowledge we had coming out of ATW. It was a frantic scramble to get my class the remedial knowledge they needed and in the end everyone passed.