Originally Posted by A318

It’s the Knowledge Validation, basically the oral. You’ll have 7 validation events, 6 is done at the training center and your line check after IOE is the 7th.

Be sure to study up. There are gouges available for the indoc and systems validations (written tests on your iPads). For Procedures be sure to know your flows cold, and read the syllabuses and presentation slides before you show up to know what you’re doing. Maneuvers is in the full motion sim, same deal with reading ahead. LOFT is putting it all together, same deal. Your KV is an oral and anything covered from Indoc and ground is fair game. There’s a study guide available but the examiners do not go off of it, they’ll ask you about the walk around, systems, limitations, memory items, human factors, and deicing procedures. Anything is fair game, study up and know everything cold. If you just go off the study guide, you’ll fail, if you review everything you’ll pass. Make sure there’s no deficiencies in any subject matter. I was weak on deicing (they didn’t cover it in ground, and touched upon it in PT), and so that’s how it became an unsat.

Anyways good luck, it’s a lot of drinking from a fire hose but you will get through if you put the work in and have a good attitude. Choose a good sim partner early on and you will succeed.