Higher Power

[johnny taliban]

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[BonesF15]

-300 Sim

All 6 people who flew the 300 sim in August of 04 used auto throttles on the checkride for everything except the SE ILS.
I think that it was a big help.
All of the folks in class who were flying the 200 bitched about the Auto pilot/Flight Director.
I think flying the 300 was a better deal and made for an easier checkride.

Bones

 

[Fracster]

Hey guys,


Can someone give me an idea how much the type will cost and idea of time frame and hotels for the area?

 

[JTB]

2nd that on the -300

I was in Bones' class. Had to do the -200 due to seniority in sending in deposit for the class. From what others said who flew the -300, the -200's autopilot was more prone to click off...more handflying.

However, if your trying for both SWA and FedEx, 12 hrs of sim time and more handflying may be the better deal (due to FedEx's sim eval during their interview process). Just a thought.

Concur with the previous posts on the audio CDs. They are the money. If I were going to do it over again, I would focus on the CDs and have the preflight flow, before start flow, start sequence and after start flows down prior to starting class. Knowing the question bank cold (for the first day's test) is a given. There is a red folder with a lot of fill ins based on the various systems- we never used that one but I remember prior to starting class wondering whether I should have had that completed. Personally, I wouldn't even put in the luggage.

One final thought...if you go to HPA, show them who you are. On day one they take a picture of you for their records...make this your best and happiest picture. Sounds weird saying this, but it's true. They're very friendly folks and live the culture of SWA. You've got two weeks to show them that you really want to be part of that culture too...show them (the staff) your personality and above all, SMILE!

Hope that helps.

Good luck and fly safe,

jtb

 

[falcon20driver]

Hey guys,


Can someone give me an idea how much the type will cost and idea of time frame and hotels for the area?

Higher Power 737 type training was $7,380. when I went in Oct 2003, I stayed at Comfort Suites, about 40 bucks a day.

 

[Swerpipe]

If you want to get familiar with flying the -200 check this out http://tinmouse.org/screenshots.html
It's a free 737-200 for MS Flightsim 2002/2004, it's identical to the real -200 level C sim at Simuflite in Dallas, that's one of the sims that Higher Power uses for training and checkrides, I did mine there. The guy that designed it is a sim technician at Simuflite in Dallas, he has a lot of the systems working like the real sim.

Here's a couple screenshots of a coupled approach into YSSY http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/dcforum/DCForumID8/47758.html

Snoopy, you are absolutely right. I am amazed on how close to the HPA simulator that sim flies even on MS2004. I did mine with HPA on the same sim and I can verify what you said. I didn't know that Richard Probst is a sim technitian at Simuflite, been there many times. He got it right...A nice tool for folks who have not flown an aircraft of that type and are getting the type.

 

[snoopy_1]

Yea, Rich did a great job, feels like I'm back at Simuflite in the real sim. Sure wish I would've had this to practice with before I went to Higher Power, getting used to that autopilot/flight director combo was hell in the real sim, Simuflite would have been a cakewalk after practicing with this a few hours.