imarocker

Lear Dude, I went through training at ATL for the 350 back about a year and a half ago. I had about 50 hours as SIC in the aircraft prior to training and was the only one in the class! Did every sim session solo as well as the checkride. Trust me, if you have 700 hours in the 200 it will be a breeze, I had no problems. All the instructors there were very knowledgeable and fun to work with. Please PM me as I have some training material that you will likely find useful as well as tips as to where to eat/stay while you are there.

Lear Dude

Thanks man....I'd like to PM you, but it doesn't seem to allow me to do that. Perhaps because your post count is so low. I seem to remember something about that awhile back. I would appreciate whatever you have though....that's awful nice of you to offer. Thanks

imarocker

My pleasure to help! I'll send you what I have in a couple...

Lear Dude

Alright, all you guys that said it would be a piece of cake were pretty much spot on. However, I did have some other obstacles along the way. The biggest pain was the sim breaking down both Wednesday and Thursday, thus causing me to have to do double sim on Friday and Saturday. I swear, sitting in that old Level C sim for that long is like spending all day long in the fun house at the carnival. One of those with bent and warped mirrors that distort everything. I'll give it to the instructors though, I had two ground school instructors and two sim instructors and all four were top notch. If they had a sim that was as good as their instructors, then they would really have a product. That said, I'm glad to be out of there and getting some sleep again.

If anybody is headed to FSI @ ATL anytime soon and needs the 411 on where to eat, just shoot me a PM.

Phaques

FlyRight, Inc. just got their Level D full motion King Air 350 simulator online, and approved by the FAA for everything, including Part 135 checks. Their customer service is outstanding, sim is outstanding, pricing way better than FS - they are a boutique shop that specializes in KA training, and they excel. Their instructors are current KA pilots, not sim instructors from some other airplane.

Worth a good hard look, for sure.

Yabadaba

I just finished my Part 91 Recurrent at FlyRight. I have been frustrated by substandard experiences at FSI and Simuflight in the past after complacent instructors and overly large classes. Both ground and Sim were excellent and they are now my companies first choice for training in our King Airs.

Yes, pricing was better but that wasn't a consideration when I decided to try them.

pilotmec

Old post but info still good. I got my initial at FSI ICT for the 350 in 2002 and did 3 recurrents there. Then went to SimCom Orlando, had FTD only then. Didn't care for it much. Been to CAE 3 times and headed back in May for recurrent. I liked it ok there.
I've used FSI for 350; 90GTx & LR-JET. SimCom for BE-400 and it was great. And also Bombardier DFW for CL-604/605 and it was great. One I went to for recurrent on the 90 in Illinois was terrible.
All Contract Training has good and not so good but you get out what you put into it also.

Firsttimeflyer

FSI at ICT did really well.

DirectTo

I used FlyRight for King Air training and was very happy with it. I wish they had a Citation training facility so I could continue using them.

Gundriver64

Resurrecting this thread: Can anybody give me the average cost for the KA 350 type with FSI out of ATL?

Cheers,
G