Originally Posted by
FlyHappy
Hey,
Just wanted to share with you regarding Jepps, they have the
Airway Manual Express which cover just one state or area and cost around $20 to $30. Along with the low charts and approaches, they include the section with all the explanations of symbols and so forth. It's a cheap way to get some Jepps charts to study. That's what I did a few years ago to get ready for interviews. Once you get use to Jepps, you'll hate having to use NOS.
Using the briefing strip at the top of the Jepps plate also leads you through pretty much everything you need to cover in an approach brief. Hope that's helpful -- good luck, we're all counting on you!
FlyHappy -
Thanks for the news. Agree with the Jepp -vs- NOS view. Of course when I started flying back 20+ years ago I trained on Jepp and really like them. Changing over to NOS of course was not a choice
At least they (NOS) have recently been updated and are much more user friendly. I sure would feel a lot better about ALL this interview and prep stuff if I could bring the guy into my simulator and we could talk tech stuff about my a/c and SOP. But - that is part of the challenge. We always talk about civilian pilots with high time coming into the military world and learning OUR way of flying; this is the same. I'm diving into a whole different world of flying and I'm going to need to put a lot of things aside and learn a new way of operating. Since I don't have a lot of experience on a lot of different aircraft (although I did go through four aircraft in 3.5 years at one point), for the last 15 years I've had the luxury of concentrating one ONE airplane.
USMCFLYR