brockrock1000

Hi folks. New member here with some details in the 'Intro' thread. Long story short, I had a prior aviation career (NetJets) and then about a 20 year gap in a non-aviation career. I have been back in aviation for the last year or so (captain for a small commuter and A&P tech), and I have an interview coming up with a jet management company. I am looking for any suggestions/advice regarding some flight simulator training on 'Glass' prior to my interview. The Citation V that I flew years ago (approx 1500 hours) had the Primus 1000, but that was years ago.

I live in CT, USA (New England), and was hoping there may be a flight school in my region that has such a sim. Any input would be appreciated.

I also know that it's not a very heavy lift these days to build your own home based sim for procedure training, but it's not really something that I would use enough to justify the cost.


Anyway, thanks in advance! Safe flying!

JamesNoBrakes

Id recommend FMS training as oppposed to "glass" for this.

brockrock1000

Yeah, probably the term 'glass' is dated. I fly steam gauges now and am looking for some time flying tape style gauges - like I am sure will be the case in the interview sim. I know my sim 'parter' in the interview will not expect full knowledge of all settings, but I just want to refresh my scan flying tapes. I could also be worrying too much. I have been through this before 20+ years ago. I flew a Navajo prior to applying to NetJets, and it had steam gauges, and I did fine flying the sim for that interview. That was an FMS system. It would just be good to get a refresher though. I would feel more confident.

TiredSoul

In addition

https://learn2flyct.com/flight-training/simulator/

https://www.flyhpa.com/garmin-avionics/g1000/

brockrock1000

Thank you for the links. I am going to reach out to the school listed in the first link. Hopefully I can get a bit of time in their sim. I appreciate it!

tallpilot

What aircraft types do they manage? For most small cabin jets I would think training on the Pro Line 21 would be helpful. Older CJ2 or 3 sims might be pretty cheap.

But if it's a Garmin 3000/5000 airplane then that's pretty different. However a computer based GFS or something would help you familiarize without the expense of a full flight simulator.