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That way nothing is a surprise and you can just go and check the boxes off. today’s class/Sim we need to perform successfully A B C and D (found on the lesson plan) to progress to the next lesson. ie, always have the course plan on hand and lesson plan for each class, flight, or Sim session.

Find out in advance what you will be covering in each lesson.

To quote, author and ex-Navy SEAL Commander, Jocko Willnik – “Take extreme ownership”. Don’t rely on the teacher to feed you information, simply use them as a respected guide and resource. So here is the best piece of advice I can give to a student or pilot in training (and I’m sure its sound advice that applies to many other learning applications too):

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The pages of the manual that I should have studied. And, flight Training is always flight Testing, because you don’t start lesson 2 until you complete/pass lesson 1, and so on.

Sometime after this, I was reminded of two important lessons, Just about everything you need to know is written in books somewhere. I don’t remember his words… but it was probably along the lines of “WTF are you doing?” It was quite obvious I didn’t study properly beforehand. I actually nailed it… I just nailed the completely wrong target. So, I rolled into a steep turn maneuver and turned about 220° off track. I misunderstood for a 45° degree angle of bank turn for 1minute. But then the turn 45° off track for 1minute to establish a parallel track offset. Oxygen mask on, start the descent to 10,000feet, etc. I managed to bullsh*t my way through 80% of it. Either way, I was sharp enough to let my buddy go first since the instructor didn’t demonstrate, so I could watch him. Or I was just being dumb and ignorant.įortunately, I am pretty good at “watch and repeat” and I probably do rely on it a little too much. Maybe I was just overwhelmed with a workload higher than I’d expected or ever experienced. Maybe I thought the instructor was going to spoon-feed us. To be honest, I either completely forgot, didn’t even know to or totally overlooked, studying to understand and memorize the steps before the session in the first place. Needless to say, I didn’t know all the steps. We were practicing rapid depressurisation and emergency descent procedures, which require a number of steps in sequence, like a choreographed dance. so I could just follow the instructor and wing it, learning ‘on the fly’ to get through. Mostly what we’d been able to practice on a paper tiger (a mock cockpit made of paper) at home and stuff that wasn’t too procedural basic handling and so on.

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Full motion saab340 simulator used for training.Īll of the easy familiarization things had been covered in the first two simulator sessions. They can be intense and brutal like a mental and physical workout. I have left many Simulator sessions mentally and physically exhausted.

Most aircraft endorsements typically include about 10 simulator sessions of 3 to 4 hours shared between 2 trainee first officers.įollowed by a skills test with a regular line Captain supporting from the left seat. Right before I realised my, good enough study habits that got me through high school and flight school were underdeveloped and having me come up short. I don’t know if that was ever said, but it’s what I felt.

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“I know you’ve never done this before, but why don’t you already know how to do this?”