Well, I've arrived at the Homestead and have elected to try the first week without a rental car. The best rates I could find were all around $800/mo. for an econobox. Ouch. I'd drive my car up from Orlando next weekend if I weren't worried about some of the vehicle security comments I've read...

Ken

 

we just rented one for the weekends, 20 bucks a day from enterprise, and they will pick you up!!

 

To some of you that have alreadt, or now going through training, Is there a set schedule as in 8 - 5 all the way through or something else. Also do you get weekends off? Thanks , TC.

 

yes you get weekends off, my experience so far, 1st two weeks, death by power point, use your down time to get your IAI down cold and your Lim. down. You will be given alot of other information for you to absorb. The next two weeks, there is not enough time in the day to get everything down try and stay ahead. Its not bad just manage your time wisely, FYI turn your phone off or bring donuts to my class first, have fun enjoy robert and I'll see you in the morning... Hope this helps

 

And by all means learn this phrase and live by it "Cooperate to graduate" You guys are all teammates so help out the guys that have trouble. Enjoy a beer every now and then so you don't burn out. I was a check airman there up until March '07 and have since moved on,but I do miss flying with the newbies. Good luck guys.

 

That's a good idea and I might wind up doing that for the weekends that I'm here. This coming weekend (and at least two others), however, I'm going home. One night in the Homestead and I already miss my wife, my house, my bed & my tv...

I'm really looking forward to getting started this morning.

Ken

 

go to bed man for gods sake!!! you have 8 hours of power point ahead of you!!!!

 

So for everybody in the 4/30 and 5/14 class, hows it been so far? I start class 5/30. Just wondering what everybody thinks so far. Thanks!!

 

Well, Indoc is pretty dull, though you'll get through it like everybody else. Systems is interesting, as is FMS class. Memory items & limitations will take a couple of weeks to get down pat. I memorized three pages each night and then tested myself from the beginning each night before memorizing that day's three new pages. Seemed to work out alright.

One of our (4/30 class) big frustrations is the fact that the paper tigers are gone and the new graphic flight simulators (GFS) they've installed aren't ready for prime time. We keep hearing how the next class (or the one after that) will have access to them to practice flows & callouts, but we'll just have to muddle through without. Also, due to some licensing issues, we can't view the animated systems slides, just the static ones.

Make sure that you and your sim partner spend some time out at the maintenance hangar, sitting in the airplane practicing flows & callouts.

Fortunately, one of my classmates has shared a three-CD set of systems lessons from another airline. The data (having been crosschecked with our CFM) is good and the lessons really help make sense of how the switches, EICAS messages, and synoptic page symbology all relate. Great stuff!

That's about it from my perspective. We're in the last week of systems now, with our systems/limitations/memory items tests next Tuesday. Then CPTs and orals. Then sims.

Hope this helped some. Start studying your limitations/memory items now...

Regards,
Ken

 

also look into crj2.com... about 95% of it is good. The 5% is mainly company lims that are different then PCL, but if you are studying the lims you will see the obvious differences. Systems are systems though..