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multipilot
Honeywell, Rockwell Collins, etc. would be great too. I'll edit the original post to include that. Any info you can provide will be very helpful and very much appreciated. I understand the 757 and 767 have very similar cockpits. Did the company you work for train you on both initially or did you train in one and transition to the other later? How easy/difficult was it for you to make the initial transition and how often do you now transition between the two?
Thanks for your input.
The 757-200, 757-300, 767-200, and 767-300 all have similair cockpits. The 767-400 has full glass similair to the 777. Most of the training (at CAL) is based on the 757-200 and then you do differences training for the other models. That was ground school only. In the simulators all of my training was in the 767-300 and then I took my 757/767 type in the 767-400.
I mostly fly the 757's and get an occasion 767 trip. It is more senior due to higher pay (widebody). The glass/instruments are the easy part, it's the systems differences that make transitioning back and forth more difficult.
It was worse on the 737. The -300 models are steam gauge, the -500 models were half glass like the 757/767, and the NG's: -700,-800,& -900 were all glass. You can fly all of them in one day, so it was fun. Once you're trained in a Boeing it's easy to transition to other Boeings. Hopefully I'll fly the 777 and 787 soon.
I've used glass since the '80's in corporate aircraft, turbo-prop airliners, regional jets, and Boeing aircraft, so it is pretty easy to fly anything "instrument" wise.