Originally Posted by
NeverHome
For anyone trying to pass a 121 new hire training (any airline), here is the secret sauce:
Attitude, show up hungry to learn. You gotta want to learn not only the plane but the company too.
Study, lots and lots. Here is how: note cards. Write out the notecards. The act of writing will be another time you see the specific details. Doing the cards over and over again will help. After that quiz and be quizzed by classmates.
Get sleep, don’t stay up all night. If your tired you will only waste your own time as you won’t learn squat.
Excercise, not crazy but a little goes a long way.
Eat decent food. Burger King has bent many new hires over and railed them. Doesn’t gotta be super vegan BS. Just decent, like leave it to beaver.
Have a beer, A Beer! Not The Whole darn 6 pack. Seriously have a beer, not kidding, I’m encouraging a drink.
Study some more, be an expert.
Lastly, ask good questions in class and stay engaged. This will be of tremendous benefit for everyone.
Best of luck
This is pretty spot on guidance to be honest. I do want to focus on one particular item and that is study with your classmates.
Form a group of four that get along with each other, don't make the mistake of a huge group or it gets distracting. Study and quiz each other over and over again. I have found time and time again that people seem to do the best with this route.
As around for a "study guide" and use that to quiz each other. You will learn almost everything you need to know for training by doing that. Beyond the quizzing, ask questions, especially in the early days of CPT so that you at least have a grasp of the avionics.
Good luck!