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Well, between flights I ran downstairs to the pilot lounge to see if there were any Jepp revisions in my v-file.
In my v-file this evening was a “Welcome to the 767 Program” letter from the program manager. It basically talked about the various training phases, what to expect and debunking some of the AQP (whatever that stands for) acronyms.
Now I’m confused even more than ever, but at least it was interesting!
A lot of the ground work is self-study so I had to explain to my wife this evening that even though Ihave a 21-day training “footprint”, that a lot of the time prior to showing up, I’m going to have my head buried in the books because the 757/767 is A LOT different than flying a McDonnell-Douglas product.
A little scary, a little exciting.
Scary because I know NOTHING about the aircraft and I’ve got a mystery training date where I’m going to be expected to perform on day one in April — hasn’t been confirmed or solidly scheduled yet.
Exciting because it’s a whole different aircraft and an entirely different operation. Hell, the international side is almost run as a different airline entirely.
One thing NEW that I learned this evening is that I’ll have a domestic IOE trip (basically, flying with a check pilot/”initial operating experience”) covering both the 757 and the 767, and then accomplish a TOE (”trans-oceanic operating experience”).
I have a long layover tomorrow so I’m going to dive right into the systems CD.
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That letter makes it official. =)
Comment by seand 02.06.07 @ 3:46 pm