Originally Posted by
PossibleDeviation
Spirit has 4 sims in FLL that are primarily used for new hires. As of last week they are starting to use DFW, MCO and MIA for new hire sim events.
Show up to training having flows, memory items and limitations down 100%.
Indoc is very light here. If you don’t know how 121 operates you will struggle as indoc here is taught by instructors that have never flown the actual airplane or the line. Buddy up with others who have flown 121 and can work through the details with you. As it is being taught now I wouldn’t recommend it for your first 121 training experience.
That’s both out of date info and overly dramatic. The paper tiger sessions will be with instructors who’ve never flown the plane, but are type rated and well versed in it’s systems. They’re just there to teach you buttonology. Chuck Yeager is not needed for that. The actual sims will be instructor pilots who also fly the line.
”121” is overblown nonsense. The job is leisurely and easy. Between consulting with your instructors and reading the FOM, you can do it in a month reading 20 pages a night, you ought to have a very good idea of what is meant by certain phrases.