This definitely could be an issue if you ever are in a position where you want to go to a Part 135 operator using older pistons, turboprops, or jets. It's very different. I heard that Northwest was trying to hire directly into the Airbus instead of the DC9 because regional guys "don't know how to fly steam gauges"!

After several thousand hours behind old fashion gauges, I just got a type rating in a jet that's all glass without too much sweat. (OK, a little sweat but I'm old.) If you get the opportunity, I think some experience in both would serve you well.

 

[QUOTE=N6724G;279794]The average pilot can do this...are you saying you're below average and can't handle it?

 

If you're part of the Xbox/PS2 generation you shouldn't have a hard time going from dials to glass. It's usually the older folk that have to struggle to figure it out.

 

I agree, however taking the JET course reduces your chances of washing out of initial training at a regional. As much as I've paid to get my licenses, and as hard as I worked to build experience (I'm not a 300 hour wonder), I'm not going to risk washing out of training and ruining my career because I wasn't prepared for the intensity of airline training.

Not saying I can't pass without it, but why not help yourself out? I shelled out over 10K for my multi-commercial, I can shell out 1500 for a jet course.

 

Amen. I totally agree

 

As do I...some of these guys are too macho to admit that a bit of homework can make all the difference in the world LoL

 

Yeah, don't know how I (or almost all of my peers)ever made it from PPL to a major. Must have been all those(pick your jet) Cessna, Beech, CRJ, 737, 757, and 767 prep courses out there.

If you are worried about failing ground school before you even start you're not ready. Where is the lack of confidence coming from?

 

I have to say that im with slice on this one. Passing airline training is not that difficult and any pilot of average skill can pass providing they put in the effort while at training.

Just tell yourself...look at all of those 300 hour pilots hired at these airlines with barely 20 multi and no rj course and they make it. Are you saying that they can do it and you cant? I know personally of people who have taken an RJ course and still failed training. In no way would I really even say that it is an advantage. In a ratio of cost to benefit gained id say that one is a lose lose situation. An example of a good investment is the turbine engine manual book (forgot the actual name) it will cost a few bucks on amazon and work wonders.

 

passing airline training isn't rocket science, but it's hard work. If you don't feel as if you're being pushed as you go through training, then you're probably not studying hard enough.

No macho-ism but there's a reason airline training is typically fast paced, and in the "old" world, unforgiving. It's because while you're qualified to be there, not everyone is cut out to be there. They will pile as much information on you as you can take, then pile on a little more, they'll tell you the date on which you'll take your oral, assign you an instructor, tell you when your checkride is going to be and with whom, and it doesn't matter if you've got a little quezy feeling in your stomach about your comfort in the sim, when your day comes up you gotta play ball. It's a tough way of doing business, but, it keeps the guys out who may not have what it takes when the alternate is hard IFR, and the destination is worse, your engine is on fire and the captain is dead.

 

Personally I wouldn't take a Jet course...I got through TSA training w/500 hrs when half the rest of my class did not. Yes folks, a 50% washout rate

But to ridicule somebody a nervous CFI? It's wrong. Obviously most of didn't need it, but hey - you've got to admit it wouldn't have hurt...