Like someone mentioned just do what the instructors in BI tell you and don’t get too far ahead of yourself. I did the cbts ass on as soon as they were available which gave me more flexibility later on. I also recommend going to the paper tiger and doing call outs and flows before each lesson. My sim partner and I did this all the way to the checkride even if we knew them down cold, it’s just great prep for the lesson and gives you more time to work on stuff in the sim. I signed up for Grubhub just to change food options.

Awesome, thanks!

Very good, thanks!

A minor addition but read the syllabus prior to each lesson and view the PowerPoint slides in the iPad. Instructors don’t have the time to teach the lesson to you as your first time hearing it. Good study questions in there as well.

Actually I'd call this one of the most important tips on here, in addition to spending plenty of time in the paper tigers with your sim partner. The briefing PowerPoints are essential to read thoroughly before each session.

so true.. it’s more common than not that we will be doing cold wx or hot wx ops and someone shows up to the brief like “I didn’t know we were doing this today” or even worse, knew but didn’t bother to crack a book and had the, “ you’re supposed to spoon feed me this so I don’t have to go look it up” mentality


I had one that was so bad because they hadn’t looked at anything. I cancelled the sim..

You're currently at TK? That's really amazing to hear and BS quite honestly. We have a really good training dept IMO and so much information to look at. You know EXACTLY what you're getting into every period. It really is impressive and quite different than the days I remember of "look over x,y, and z for tomorrow" and that was about it.

I definitely don't want to go back to the adversarial days of sim training, but there is a balance.

yup , at TK and those were just an example. It happens with other things as well which is why I always go over what’s gonna happen on the next event what they should be reviewing before hand. If I can tell that they at least opened the book or looked at the slides then I will bend over backwards to get the info across to them. Show up completely unprepared and it’s a waste of our time together.

I’ve always appreciated instructors like you. I’ve had instructors come in and not know what the lesson was for the day. They eventually got some continuity going in the briefs. Fortunately, that was one individual. I was lucky that my sim partner and I studied well together which made training very palpable.