Originally Posted by
dingdong
Once you get past drinking the firehose preparing for the SV test, the training is great. Plenty of pilots have gone through 756 training as new hires. If you’re a weak pilot that can’t adapt, maybe you should try a different career?
She may not be pretty, but once you’re inside Christine shes just like any other sim, close your eyes if you don’t like the visuals, and remember that it’s always rewarding at the end of a long session.
And when flying Christine don’t worry about how sensitive the rudder pedals are on the ground. That’s not at all how the real airplane is.
The biggest issue I saw with new hires on the 756 was learning the FMC. The problem was that, at the time I was teaching on it (2015) there was no FMC training, you were expected to show up on day one knowing how to operate the FMC. That may have changed in the last 6 years. As a group 756 instructors were begging and pleading for more FMC training for new hires and it was being completely ignored. It used to break my heart watching our new hires struggle with the FMC and by the time I first got them it was for two days then a PV and if they weren’t up to speed on the FMC by then it was additional training time. Which of course is a total confidence killer because most pilots associate additional training as a failure.
The syllabus for the procedural phase was all about approach profiles, reroutes, radial intercepts, place bearing, place bearing distance, place bearing/place bearing, holding etc etc. there was no spare time to teach basic FMC usage. If they didn’t already know what buttons to push and how to push them they were swimming in the deep end with a 50lb weight tied to their ankles.