I hear you guys...I just got done with sim and have 2 4 days back to back for IOE. There is definatly no shortage on flying that I can tell. I hope they get it back up and running soon. Our class was the last in the line after the great debackle with the class below ours. I don't wat to stay at the bottom too long:D Atleast I wanted Dayton...I feel for all the other guys in class!

Yea, I hope things get back on track soon. Im about to start doing the CFI thing down at Dayton Wright Bros. Airport in the next week until my class date. They said it might be September when things get going again. I sure as h#!! hope not, I cant wait to start.

Floyd78, any helpfull hints on surving the groud and sim.

It is not to bad..You are well prepped in ground to get through it all. Just know all the stuff that they gave you in the handout cold. All the memory items and the limitations

The sim is a different thing all together. You need to have your profiles and flows down cold before you get there. And when I say cold I mean...Cold! You need to be able to say them without thinking about it. (Like the micro machine dude) Prime example is the non precision hand flown approach. If you have to think about your calls you will screw the pooch:D. The sim is fun but it really shows where you are as an instrument pilot. Just make sure your scan is solid or you will struggle with the approches. So go out and hand fly approaches to death while you can it will set you up for a sucsessful sim.

Good luck! Hope you get in soon for my sake:D

As ridiculous as this sound..... Microsoft flight sim with a crj really helps with your scan...a lot of us played it... just do steep turns at 250 kts for like half an hour and your scan will be so fast the approaches are cake.... let the flaming begin

floyd I'm glad you guys are there to fill out the list..wish those other ten guys hadn't screwed the pooch.. i don't want to sit reserve all summer..

Thanks floyd. Blueskies, I think Im going to try the flight sim thing, I'v heard from alot of people that it helps. Do you know if there is a website with additional information on the CRJ 200 that I could start looking at.

Take a look at www.rcoco.com/sdoc/ . If you familiar with a 121 MEL, take a look at the master MEL for the CRJ http://www.opspecs.com/AFSDATA/MMELs/Final/transport/. Scroll down to the CL series and open it up. This is the root document for every airlines MEL flying the CRJ.

Thanks man, I need something to keep me motivated while I wait this out.

Brad be cafeful what you study as far as additional info with regard to the airplane. Some things are not standard across every operator.. for example the gear limitation from bombardier is 250 but PSA uses 220 to keep things as common between the 200 and 700 as possible... also some operators allow the use of the autopilot to 80 ft per bombardier but PSA restricts it to 100 ft on an ILS... not big differences granted...but don't memorize numbers that might change... If you want to get a little ahead get the cockpit posters and the buttons book...that seemed to help a lot of people..though honestly I didn't think systems was that hard...

Thanks, I think I will study it and then back it up with the Memory Item/ Limitations packet that Lisa sent us. It is depressing flying into Dayton with my students practicing ILS approaches knowing I should be down there in ground school.