Another short day today and
a short report to follow.
We spent the morning
briefing three IFR flight scenarios that we would be doing in the
simulators. Our training captain would
be choosing one of the three scenarios after we got in the simulator, so we
needed to be familiar with all three.
The one I ended up flying was a flight from LaVerne (Brackett) airport
to Los Angeles, with a VOR/DME approach to runway 25R at LAX. The simulator flight went very
smoothly. I believe that my work on and
use of Jeppesen’s FlitePro has been very helpful to me in my sim training here
at Ameriflight. The training captain
said he couldn’t think of anything to write down on my training report. I thought that was pretty cool.
Because there are only four
simulators and 24 of us in class, it makes for quite a bit of dead time on
simulator day. Since my sim slot was
1130, my day was over by 1230. Tomorrow
I’ll be finished even earlier, with my sim slot at 0930, but we have to be in
class by 0700, 90 minutes earlier than the rest of the training days have
been. Then we have Sunday completely
off. I have no idea what I am going to
do this weekend.
During a morning break I
went out to the flight line and sat in two of the airplanes, the Piper Chieftain and the Beech 99.
When I originally walked around the Chieftain, my first thought was “Wow
that’s a big son of a bitch”. But after
spending about 15 minutes sitting in the cockpit, it really isn’t all that much
more complex and I can’t wait to fly the comparable Cessna 402!
It’s starting to get very
exciting. Actual flight training for me
will begin in 10 days.
