The Final Push
Going into the final few days of the type rating, thought it just to update briefly on how things are going.. Between all of us I think the utter dedication of the course is now starting to show with a combination of fatigue, information overload and pressure with the coming exams now begining to take its toll. With every sim it isn’t so much as a step up each time but more of a giant leap up and every single time you walk into the training centre its something new that you haven’t done before. Over the last 4 sims we’ve had a different instructor who has taken us through perhaps the most demanding phase of the rating, throughout all just simply one emergency after another. Faliure after faliure with landing after landing but slowely and surely we’re getting there and with every excercise completed puts a little more confidence and experience into the pocket in preparation for the LST. Its now sunday evening, the check is Friday morning, followed by our circuit training early on saturday and then finito. The end, of the beginning and to our understanding if good weather prevails (unlikely in the UK but we can always hope) we could be flying the aircraft as early as the following week for our base training.. Frightning eh?
Not a lot else to report really so will keep it short.. but perhaps I will say this.. The last 2 months have been without question the most demanding 2 months I’ve ever had, and both Chris and myself agreed the other day that it was the biggest challenge we’ve faced thus far. No question the pressure will continue through line training, as we get used to the operational aspect of the flying jet- but then I guess it isn’t so much working towards a lifelong dream but more of living it as a reality.
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