Connecting dots
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- Published on Monday, 14 March 2011 22:44
It’s a little bit longer than a year ago when I did my last prof check. I did the check ride on the Seneca and every year I have to proof that my wings are still in place. The JAA states that you at least fly every two year in a real aircraft in real air. This time I was allow to use the arm chair plane, also known as as a flight simulator. I also want brush up my MCC skills. This time I have chosen to do my check ride on the King Air.
In advance I did additionally about 10 hour training on this nice piece of machinery. It really flies like pregnant duck. I just won’t fly straight or level with the auto pilot off. That is probably caused because this air plane doesn’t uses counter rotating engines. This is a good way to train your aviator skills. It pushes you really to the edge if you are inexperienced with this aircraft under simulated IFR conditions with a N-1 procedure (N-1 is one engine failure, 1 working). The first few lessons I flew it multi crew. My MCC skills were a little bit rusted.
The simulator is the ultimate tool to train the extra’s. Situation which normally cannot be trained in the real world can be done here without harm over and over again. Even though I have no type rating for this aircraft you may use it in the check ride. You must also fly it single pilot. The examen is pretty straight forward but had to show a exceptional good ILS approach. The end result, I succeeded.
