Comair Memory Items and Limitations Test coming up
06-12-2008, 08:09 AM
#31
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: Waiting for class to start...
Posts: 379
I don't start class for another month, but I thought I remember that they wanted it done before training started. Hopefully someone on here can shed a little more light on this. If I were you, I'd try to knock it out either way! Good Luck!!!
06-12-2008, 10:10 AM
#32
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Joined APC: Mar 2007
Position: 88B - Loud Pipes Save Lives
Posts: 1,597
My how times have changed. My first regional was Comair. I was lucky to get on the RJ back when there were only 12 in the world and if you were junior you went to Berlin for training. Back then you actually made money because they handed you an $1800 per diem check for two weeks of training and the exchange rate completely favored the dollar. Also back then, Comair made you memorize every limitation on the 51 pages of them. You also had to know all the memory items verbatim. 51 pages of limitations was ridiculous but we did it because that's what was required. By my first or second recurrent they started boxing the limitations you needed to know. So to hear someone freaking out about memory a few dozen memory items makes me laugh at how times have changed. I feel like one of my grandfather's now saying "hey we sucked it up and did because that's what you had to do".
At DAL the 757/767 limitations for four fleet types is easy compared to those days. However, there is no mercy on the limitations or memory items. In fact, going through the 757/767 type the instructors were emphatic that you had to not only know the memory items verbatim but the title of them as well. It is what it is I guess. Get used to it because this is how your career will be from here on out. I can tell you however, that the regionals based on my history tended to over train compared to DAL. Here the training is intense but not near intense as other regionals I've been at.
Just count your stars that the 727 is gone. When I got hired at DAL the guys going through 727 school looked like zombies. Their orals were often 3-4 hours and focused on a system. Literally APD's would come in and say, "I'm a molecule of hydraulic fluid, draw out the entire schematic from memory on the board" and then they would quiz them for hours about every temp, pressure, trip point, motor, etc.
You have it easy now son. Enjoy it.
At DAL the 757/767 limitations for four fleet types is easy compared to those days. However, there is no mercy on the limitations or memory items. In fact, going through the 757/767 type the instructors were emphatic that you had to not only know the memory items verbatim but the title of them as well. It is what it is I guess. Get used to it because this is how your career will be from here on out. I can tell you however, that the regionals based on my history tended to over train compared to DAL. Here the training is intense but not near intense as other regionals I've been at.
Just count your stars that the 727 is gone. When I got hired at DAL the guys going through 727 school looked like zombies. Their orals were often 3-4 hours and focused on a system. Literally APD's would come in and say, "I'm a molecule of hydraulic fluid, draw out the entire schematic from memory on the board" and then they would quiz them for hours about every temp, pressure, trip point, motor, etc.
You have it easy now son. Enjoy it.
06-12-2008, 05:42 PM
#33
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Joined APC: Mar 2007
Posts: 34
For all you guys currently in class, did they ask for ATP written results on the first day. Art Wanzo never really specified whether or not I needed it for then. I assumed I did, but with wrapping things up with my former employer and moving, I totally forgot about it with my class starting next Mon. I'm gonna be on the road most of today otherwise, I would just spend all day studying. I really don't wanna be sent home cuz its not done. Any comments??
06-12-2008, 07:10 PM
#34
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Joined APC: Jan 2008
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Not a bad idea!!! I still am almost 100% sure that when we started the interview and presentation, we were told that to interview it was not needed but it was a must to start class.
06-12-2008, 07:12 PM
#35
I have shiny jet syndrome
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: ELACS, FACs and SECs. Who doesn't love 'em?
Posts: 984
I can tell you that in my 3 and a half years of being here at Comair, no one has ever looked at my ATP written nor has anyone ever asked me if I even had completed it (except in the interview).
In fact, when I upgrade, I'm going to have to tear my house apart to find it because I have no clue where I put it.
In fact, when I upgrade, I'm going to have to tear my house apart to find it because I have no clue where I put it.
06-12-2008, 07:57 PM
#37
On Reserve
Joined APC: Jun 2008
Position: CRJ-200 right seat
Posts: 12
they never asked about atp writtens on our first day (about a month ago), but I think we all had it done so that might be why.
you should go take it. every time critical mach comes up in a question, its the right answer. that takes care of like 3 or 4 questions right there. hopefully that gets the ball rolling.
you should go take it. every time critical mach comes up in a question, its the right answer. that takes care of like 3 or 4 questions right there. hopefully that gets the ball rolling.
