Originally Posted by kbalch

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

Originally Posted by CashRefund

I heard the guys in the April 30th class are a bunch of crazy people.