Originally Posted by evilboy

Guys, a quick update.
Strong rumors of some more recalls after the holiday weekend. Again just rumors, but rather strong from what I'm seeing. My personal guess, there will be more.
Anyhow, IMPO as far as the training is concerned, 3 sim rides don't seem to be enough to get you back to par. Maybe a 4th should be scheduled without having to ask for it. The curriculum is packed for those 3 days, very little margin to redo any task more than once. Second day is a doozy. One maneuver is a clean stall (at FL310), recover from it and while so, a lost engine, driftdown procedure, as you're about to recover (at this time around FL210), second engine out. Double engine out procedure is a *****. Finally recovered at 5k, and even being in a sim, pucker factor is a bit high. Btw, that's just one procedure and both pilots have to do it. If you have to redo it, there goes your schedule. It is lengthy. Once you do a few coupled approches during the first day, the rest are hand flown (all of them). It is tiresome, draining, and easy to fall behind. We have our 3rd ride today and so far only have 3 items not completed in first 2 rides (S/E non-prec app, CFIT, and Windshear) and should be able to complete them today (hopefully) along the scheduled tasks. Some other crews are not as "caught up" as we are.
One piece of advice for everyone coming back, get your call outs down pat before showing up along with flows. Hope this helps.