Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Excellent advice, it really is.
Ill add 1 thing: As an instructor, your student is your customer, and its your job to find different ways to help them learn how to fly the C172 (or whatever), you job is to instruct. Once at a 121 airline, and you are signed off to the line, it is not the CAs job to instruct. The customer is not you, the customers are in the plane behind you. This is also what RemoveB4Flight was saying, training wheels will be off, you are expected to do the job as a qualified 121 FO, operating in the busiest airports, dangerous airports, all hours of the day.
You challenge will not be learning flows or limitations of the A320, the challenge will be staying afloat with the operation and the realities of 121 line flying.
Not to discourage anyone, but the learning curve is steep, way steeper than the steep turns youre current teaching in a single engine piston (sorry, couldn't resist). Its just we had a new knucklehead on this forums a few months back who was convinced the CA is supposed to hand hold all of our new hires, as if they were students and the CAs are CFIs.
Agree on this...particularly the learning curve. I've been 121 for 8 months or so and still have times where I feel behind. The firehose of info during training becomes a firehose of experiences on the line that you have never seen before. It can be a lot. It certainly can be done, but there is nothing easy about it.