Originally Posted by JetJock16

It may not, but it's a huge confidence booster having some experience in the a/c before 50+ Pax climb on board for your first 121 landing.

Before I moved over to the RJ I flew the Bro (EMB-120) for SKW, our initial a/c check out was pretty cool. My sim partner, I and a check airmen took a Bro around 9:30 p.m. local time in Carlsbad, CA and ended up flying all over Socal (Southern California for those who don't know) until 4:30 in the morning. We didn't fly then entire time; the a/c needed new tires so we flew it to PSP where we shot visuals & VOR’s until the max number of landings for the tires was met. Then we proceeded to ONT for the ILS and my sim partner took it over to YUM. After a stop and go at YUM we needed to burn some more fuel off so we climb to 8,000’ north of Carlsbad over the ocean and practiced steep turns. The check airmen and I ended up competing with each other on climbing then descending steep turns to headings. A competition that I won, only because I had been practicing in the sim and his job mostly dictates that he observes (not really hands on). After we reached the desired fuel load I flew a Flaps 45 short field ILS to mins back at Carlsbad, due to the marine layer, to end the night.

For my RJ check out we started in Grand Junction, CO; but the ILS was down so we ventured down to Farmington, NM where we shot both the ILS and LOC to missed approaches (not authorized to land the RJ in FMN), finally jetting back up to Grand Junction for the visual approaches and landing portions.

I thoroughly enjoyed both nights because they were stress free environments designed to build confidence. Thank you SKW for spending all that money so that we as adrenaline junkies can continue to get our rock off. LOL!

BTW, there was a full moon on both nights. Absolutely beautiful and surreal flying low, fast with AP off and a hand on the throttles. I love my job!

Originally Posted by flynavyj

have always thought that doing the check in the airplane would have been tough, but i've heard it was much easier than the sim from most of the pilots i've talked to. That might have just been what i'd think about the jet, but the t-prop, guess that'd be pretty fun.

Originally Posted by SharkyBN584

I'd take the airplane anyday. It's hard for them to give you an engine fire or pitch trim runway on takeoff that way