Originally Posted by
iflythewest
I was in the September class at Lakes on the Beech. I was hired with fairly low time and was afraid of the training. If you know how to study hard, fly ndb approaches, and have a positive attitude, it should not be too hard. However, it was much more stressful than college or anything else I have done in my life.
What do you consider fairly low time? Had you recently gotten all of your tickets and had trained on the NDBs? I didn't like the NDB approaches when I trained on them as a civilian and again when I did them in intermediate flight training in the T-2C! Luckily for me I had an old WWII SBD pilot teaching me and he started the sim off by telling me to relax because he had flown all over the Pacific using nothing but NDBs! He wasn't good for many of the other sims - but I came out of that one confident. Of course that was 18 years ago now almost and I hardly even check the ADF in my current airplane on the maintenance checkflights
I would hate to shoot NDB approaches again!
USMCFLYR