Dallas Simuflite Lear training.

[keatts]

Hi, has anyone gone through the LRJET SIC training? Can someone give me an idea of what to expect? What approaches they use, how long the sim sessions are. How the Sim sessions break down, and what the checkride is like.

I think I'm gonna be there March 1

thanks,

Keatts

 

[CoolHands]

I haven't been through the SIC course in a couple of years but I'll try and help ya out. A good place to check to see what the ground school/sim schedules are like is www.simuflite.com If you are going through the full initial and not just the SIC course you will be there for about two weeks. First week is mainly ground school and the second week is when you get to do all the fun sim stuff. The approaches they used in the sim when I was there varied on what training scenario you happened to be doing that day. For the high and hot day they generally used approaches at KCYS, KDEN or KASE. For the cold weather day I believe they used PACD (Cold Bay, Alaska) and I think KJFK. The practice checkride and the checkride were exclusively either out of KIAH with an approach into KHOU or KJFK with an approach into KLGA. If you have a sim partner, you will each get 2 hours of sim time per session. If you are by yourself, Simuflite will assign you one of there right seaters and I think you may get a 3 hour block of sim time but I may be mistaken on that. The type of Checkride you get depends on whether your PIC or SIC. If your just getting the SIC qualification it's a piece of cake. I can tell you exactly what the PIC checkride is but I can't for the life of me remember what the requirements are for the SIC. Overall, Simuflite seems to do a pretty good job so I would just relax and have a good time flying the sim. I'd recommend getting all the books early just so you can go over the systems and limitations to have a basic knowledge of the aircraft going into ground school. If you have any other questions let me know. GOod luck and have fun with it

Scott

 

[F16TJ]

keatts...

We do our C-21 training there and the Simuflite instructors for the Lear are all top-notch. Scott pretty much covered everything in the post above. I wouldn't worry about the approaches 'cause when you're in the box, that is the last of your worries!

They get you up to speed in the classroom and then into the box you go. Four hours in the box goes very fast and you learn a lot. USAF doesn't do a sim check there, so I can't give you any insight into the checkride.

Good luck and have fun. And remember, $9.95 all you can eat beef ribs at Riscky's in Sundance Square (downtown Fort Worth) topped off with a few worldly brews at The Flying Saucer!

TJ

 

[CoolHands]

Hell yeah!

**CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED****CENSORED**, I forgot to mention Riscky's all you can eat beef ribs!! That's the best advice yet TJ

 

[Jump Pilot]

Lear SIC Checkride

Take off
Stall series
Unusual attitudes
Non-precision approach (VOR or RNAV 4 to HOU)
Take off w/ v1 cut
SE ILS 26 IAH
Land

Have yourself a good time. SimuFlite has done a great job of standardizing the sim sessions. You will get a list of all the sim session scenarios, what's covered, and apporach plates. There are now PCs in the briefing rooms which use Powerpoint to cover the sim rides and normal and emergency procedures.