Classes tips
03-16-2018, 08:16 PM
#13
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2018
Posts: 259
Lots of people had significant others visit on weekends. Flight benefits kick in after 30 days, if you enroll them they will have benefits from day 31.
To address the new training format ( which I agree is a huge mistake)...
You will go to Indy for 2 weeks of indoc, either in the Wyndham (free breakfast) or the Super 8 (free breakfast, free dinner, free beer on tap). You will then be sent home for 2 weeks of CBT do-it-yourself systems. Good luck. You will then be sent back to Indy for a 5 day systems crash course, followed by 4 sessions of Graphic Flight Simulators (Think of it as a Flight Training Device. Used for procedures, flows, running qrh items, etc). From there you will then go straight to St Louis to get in the sims. It's unclear whether the oral (for those who are coming in with the flight time) will be done, whether it's in Indy or in St Louis.
In STL, my class stayed at the Holiday Inn Earth City but I believe subsequent classes have been at the Holiday Inn Express closer to the airport.
To address the new training format ( which I agree is a huge mistake)...
You will go to Indy for 2 weeks of indoc, either in the Wyndham (free breakfast) or the Super 8 (free breakfast, free dinner, free beer on tap). You will then be sent home for 2 weeks of CBT do-it-yourself systems. Good luck. You will then be sent back to Indy for a 5 day systems crash course, followed by 4 sessions of Graphic Flight Simulators (Think of it as a Flight Training Device. Used for procedures, flows, running qrh items, etc). From there you will then go straight to St Louis to get in the sims. It's unclear whether the oral (for those who are coming in with the flight time) will be done, whether it's in Indy or in St Louis.
In STL, my class stayed at the Holiday Inn Earth City but I believe subsequent classes have been at the Holiday Inn Express closer to the airport.
5 days seem pretty short to prep for the written, oral and to really have a grasp on systems.
Is there any formal training on the FMS, or is that just brushed over in the 4 day graphic flight sim?
I have an interview scheduled with them, it will be interesting to see how this plays out.
03-17-2018, 10:26 AM
#15
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Joined APC: Sep 2016
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03-17-2018, 02:54 PM
#16
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Posts: 692
I'm not sure about the changes with AQP since I was well before that, but in my experience Rah training has always been bad. All the ground instructors at Flight Safety were not even typed so they had no real understanding of how everything worked. It was pretty much self study except you had to sit in the classroom all day also. I passed training along with most of my class (we did have a few failures) but I felt unprepared given the horrible training. Now this was in the days where the new hires were much more competent than many of them now are. The recurrent ground instructors were 172 drivers who were hoping for a new hire spot. So recurrent was generally useless also. I would advise all current new hires to really put the time in with the new self study and don't take it lightly. The check airman will show up and grill you for details on the oral exam. The last thing you want is a 121 failure on record when you are wanting to go to mainline. Try to get your questions answered at the crash course or even ask current Rah pilots on these forums as a last resort.
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