Flight Sim suggestions
 

Hi folks. New member here with some details in the 'Intro' thread. Long story short, I had a prior aviation career (NetJets) and then about a 20 year gap in a non-aviation career. I have been back in aviation for the last year or so (captain for a small commuter and A&P tech), and I have an interview coming up with a jet management company. I am looking for any suggestions/advice regarding some flight simulator training on 'Glass' prior to my interview. The Citation V that I flew years ago (approx 1500 hours) had the Primus 1000, but that was years ago.

I live in CT, USA (New England), and was hoping there may be a flight school in my region that has such a sim. Any input would be appreciated.

I also know that it's not a very heavy lift these days to build your own home based sim for procedure training, but it's not really something that I would use enough to justify the cost.


Anyway, thanks in advance! Safe flying!

Id recommend FMS training as oppposed to "glass" for this.

Yeah, probably the term 'glass' is dated. I fly steam gauges now and am looking for some time flying tape style gauges - like I am sure will be the case in the interview sim. I know my sim 'parter' in the interview will not expect full knowledge of all settings, but I just want to refresh my scan flying tapes. I could also be worrying too much. I have been through this before 20+ years ago. I flew a Navajo prior to applying to NetJets, and it had steam gauges, and I did fine flying the sim for that interview. That was an FMS system. It would just be good to get a refresher though. I would feel more confident.

In addition

https://learn2flyct.com/flight-training/simulator/

https://www.flyhpa.com/garmin-avionics/g1000/

Thank you for the links. I am going to reach out to the school listed in the first link. Hopefully I can get a bit of time in their sim. I appreciate it!

What aircraft types do they manage? For most small cabin jets I would think training on the Pro Line 21 would be helpful. Older CJ2 or 3 sims might be pretty cheap.

But if it's a Garmin 3000/5000 airplane then that's pretty different. However a computer based GFS or something would help you familiarize without the expense of a full flight simulator.