Any recently typed G450 guys through FSI
 

Looking for some gouge on the check ride for the G450 at FSI Savannah. Any info would be appreciated.

Thanks

A Flightsafety checkride is a flightsafety checkride. Not much variance on airframe and location. (from my experience)

Hi gflynt,

Former FSI/SAV instructor here. Check ride is very straight forward, most likely in MEM. If so the circle (easy with the planeview avionics) will be LOC 27 circle 18R. Airwork is a snap with the HUD flight path vector. You instructor will have you well primed for the examiner.

Have you flown Gulfstream products before? Have glass experience? If so it will be easy. If not, it will be a bit steeper but still doable. I have 8 types and think the G450/550 is the sweetest ride out there. Once you get used to the HUD it will be a breeze to fly.

PM me for more if you wish...

Instructors are great, they will help you out a lot, and the checkride isn't such a big of a deal. What counts is that FlightSafety will prepare you well enough for the checkride.

Theres no "gouge" - your employer paid 30-50K for your training.

Language/culture are the only reason I have ever heard of anyone failing or needing extra training. They teach to the lowest of low level.....and that likely (you hope?) wont be you.

If you fail a FSI checkride, you really dont belong in any kind of aircraft.

;):)

+1.

You can't say it any better than that.

This is a false continuum.

Some alternate considerations are warranted here.

If someone gets "check-itis," or has an ********* examiner, or is having a bad day in general and subsequently fails a checkride; this is in no way a correlation to "not belonging in any aircraft."

More like 70k, and I'm guessing that he isnt in need of the information now, almost two years later!

Check-itis, sure it happens, but then again pilots need to get used to it as they will need to deal with it throughout their career. I have yet to see an a hole examiner at a sim center. Usually when clients are paying that kind of money for education the people that work there are for the most part pretty friendly or at a minimum straight forward...

Please dont tell me you pay 70K for training on any Gulfstream. lol. You're about 30-35K high.

and "check-itis" or an "********* examiner"..??....makes me question if that poster has ever even been to FlightSafety.