[Horatio]

lexxscrapham, on 04 September 2010 - 09:24 PM, said:

Horatio, on 30 August 2010 - 06:36 PM, said:

Jesusfreak, on 31 August 2010 - 01:23 AM, said:

That is a crazy amount of studying, but at least you'll be in a better simulator now. ^_^

:lol: Better... perhaps, but now they can throw all types of emergencies at us!!! Fire, electrical, hydraulic, flight control...

*screaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmssssssssssssssss... HHHHHHHHHH EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL PPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP*

The really great part is the visual. It is really incredible. If you have a flight into Hong Kong, the airport looks exactly like Hong Kong. Any airport in the world. Perhaps not all of them, just the airports big enough to handle the B-777. Day, night, good weather, bad weather... whatever conditions the instructor desires.

yeah.. my mom works as a technician on a military flight simulator. part of her job is climbing in and making sure everything is working.

What a fantastic job your mother has!!! Our simulator technicians are incredible. After the abuse we give those machines, it is amazing to see the technicians come and make them like new. Your mother must be really smart and very talented. I know the people who work on our machines are very talented. Sometimes I wish they weren't so good as we get too many emergencies in a four hour period and it would be nice to have the machine break and give us a break. :lol:

[Jesusfreak]

Heh, reminds me of the times everyone cheered at school because the power went out. :rolleyes:

[Horatio]

Jesusfreak, on 05 September 2010 - 12:28 PM, said:

Heh, reminds me of the times everyone cheered at school because the power went out. :rolleyes:

Now that is one I had not thought of...

hope power goes out today. :lol:

[Horatio]

Okay... I have not updated this for a bit, so here goes. We are in the simulator phase and the simulator is amazing. It is too much like the airplane. The graphics are incredible. We did an exercise where there is an airplane coming at us and we have a traffic avoidance program and procedure that keeps us away from other traffic by having us complete a particular maneuver appropriate to the traffic. Well, for some reason, the program was not working. Anyway, the airplane came right at us, I ducked, and then we crashed. WHOA!!!! That was a little more realistic than I cared for. Anyway, we have survived fires, hydraulic problems, pressurization problems and today is day four. Dual engine failure. Well... we only have two engines! Eeeck!!!!

Anyway, I need a break which comes after tonight and we have three days to prepare for the next round of events. I need three days just to sleep.

Will give an update later.


P.S. The simulator does not like crashing.

[Horatio]

Overall good news... for now.

My sim went pretty good. My landings were overall great and only a couple of my flows did I have some mind blocks and forgot a switch or two. These are the first officer flows and I won't ever be doing those, but we have to learn them for the course. I am so accustomed to being a captain that I was just sitting there waiting for the "first officer" to do the take-off data, and I was the "first officer". :blush: Oh... that was not a good move.

Then yesterday I went and picked up my new bike. Whoo Hoo! I went from Memphis to Cape Girardeau, Missouri and by the time I arrived, it was raining. After three hours of driving, I was not about to turn around and go home. The rain didn't stop until I was halfway home. The rest of the ride was great and by the time I arrived in Memphis, I was feeling nice and dry and very happy about my new bike.

Pictures to follow later today!