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Originally Posted by Cruz5350 (Post 1155373)

Just go in there and be yourself. If you do the written test it's a mixture of some 121 regs and instrument/ATP written questions, all info that you should know at this point in your career. The sim is basic instrument flying that you should have down pat at this point also. The rest will be taught to you in training. They're looking for honest folks who have good knowledge and flying skills to build upon.

Couldnt have said it better. One thing about the written. Look over the legend for the Jepp approach plates. Theres atleast 7 questions that ask about a specific approach, and some ask what/where things are on the actual plate. On my written, I'm pretty sure it was ILS or LOC/DME RW 32 at Buffalo, NY.

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Originally Posted by sandrich (Post 1155377)

I thinks that was the same for me but I had like 12.

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Originally Posted by sandrich (Post 1155374)

Id say out of the 14 hours flying the sim, 8 of it was single engine. It really varies from instructor to instructor, and you'll have probably 3 or 4 different ones. To get signed off for the checkride, theres 137 areas you have to have satisfactorily completely at some point in the training. You'll experience every single type of annunciator/failure/error from GPWS, dual engine flameout, to a simple Cabin Door. Sometimes they will give you a failure, you identify, then they take it away, just to show you what it looks like. Others they make you troubleshoot and fly/shoot an approach with. There is 1 or 2 NDB approaches, some raw data, and LPV approaches. If theres one or two areas that I'd say were stressed the most, it is the V1 cuts and nonprecision approaches (specifically single engine). Trying to climb out of a V1 cut with a stuck gear, stuck flaps, and a non-feathering propellor is a b**ch.

I am assuming all of this is the sim portion in MCO, not in the Frasca?

Correct. Frasca's just to learn the profiles. You'll have a few emergencies in it, but they're not looking for perfection.

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Originally Posted by sandrich (Post 1155374)

Trying to climb out of a V1 cut with a stuck gear, stuck flaps, and a non-feathering propellor is a b**ch.

To be fair that's not on the checkride due to multiple failures, but..... it's good to see how the plane will fly.

Non-Precision approaches whether single engine or not were hit hard. I'm glad they did too because up here it only took 3 weeks before I had to do one at a BFE airport.

O and another thing the MCO sim flies a lot nicer than the planes do. Forget about the FD working as well as the one in the SIM it doesn't. My whole time in there unless I was getting a vector I would have it on NAV mode when tracking. On the line get used to heading mode and correcting for wind on your own it just doesn't work well. It's not the end of the world just a little something extra to get used to.

Btw, i know the CP told me about new uniforms, anyone have an idea what do the new uniforms look like???

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Originally Posted by Cruz5350 (Post 1155575)

When you say hit hard do you mean a lot of training in regards to non precision flying and techniques or just that you did a lot of them?

Uniforms (from what I've heard) will be a dark grey/charcoal pant, white shirt, silver epaulettes, silver wings, hat, grey tie (with a logo or stripe of some sort) and leather jacket. They'll be in effect sometime next month.