Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Lear Jet Check Ride

On Sunday April 18 I took my Check Ride to become a First officer on the Lear Jet. My company flies the 25/35/36 model of Lear Jets.
My weekend started on that Friday afternoon when I took a Delta flight from DTW - MSP - ICT (Wichita, KS,) with Eric, my sim partner who was taking his yearly caption recurrent ride,. After getting to ICT we meet up with Brad, our company director of operations (D.O.) and went out to dinner. Then we went to the sim housed at flight safety where we spend the next 6 hours, just letting me fly the aircraft and get used to it and practice the steep turns, stalls, vor holding and IFR approaches. At the end of the day I was tired but it was an ok day. Saturday started at 10 AM at the sim again I got to practice all of the above and did more approaches. then we had a lunch break and then back to the sim, where we spend the rest of the day dealing with engine and system failures until about 6PM, when we stopped for dinner and the night. Sunday started at 10 AM again the first flight of the morning started with Eric taking his checkride, he passed, then I had one more practice sim where I went over every thing that I could see on my check ride, at this point I did not do very well I was thinking that if I did not pick up my game I would not pass my check ride after lunch, to say the least, lunch was a hour of nerves, I was almost to the point of saying that I did not want to take my checkride because I was thinking that I was going to FAIL! But when I got to the sim I took a deap breath said a prayer and went for it. The checkride started out with a normal takeoff with an engine failure after V1. I was able to restart then normal climb, steep turns, stalls, direct to the VOR for the vor approach with a circle to a different runway upon going missed (not being able to land) I had another engine failure then to the VOR and hold. after that I was vectored for the ILS, for a full stop, my landing was too long down the runway so I had to fly the ILS again and land the aircraft again. With a sigh of relief I am done and I pass! While my brain is fried I just want to never study again, but that is not to be the case..ATP at the end of MAY and my Falcon 20 checkride in the summer... more to come as I continue my quest .. Never Stop Learning, Keep Moving Forward!

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