No big updates beyond having a week off between my last MD88/90 flight and showing up for ground school.

Lots of study guides, loads of ‘gouge’ and luckily, some of my friends that are on the 757/767 are calling to offer me their own pointers, study sheets and talk to me about the aircraft.

In fact, most of the morning was spent talking to another pilot who lives about two miles away that went through the program last year. To say I have 200 additional pages of stats, figures, gouge, procedures and memorization tricks would be an understatement.

More later.

On more to go.

I was able to get the 757 systems CD completed on the trip to Virginia and on the flight from Virginia to work in SLC so it’s done.

The 757 systems CD also includes some 767 differences, but as I think I said earlier, most of my training will involve the 757 with a short differences course afterward. Or something like that.

The first training DVD was “Fleet Common” or basic refreshers like Ops Specs, regulations, yadda yadda yadda. Basically all of those things that aren’t fleet-specific.

The second training DVD, which I just completed, was the 757 systems presentation.

The last DVD I’ll complete will be “World Wide Ops” or WWO. It’s more or less, well, I’m not really sure as I haven’t started it yet, but it’s going to probably cover trans-oceanic training, European and South America theater-specific ops, etc.

I’ll let you know when I find out more!

About time!

Every 8th of the month we throw our preferences into PBS in order to form our schedule.

Training planning blocked out April 4th thru May 5th for 757/767 school! About freeking time!

I really don’t have any details but I should have a “Welcome to the 767 Program” letter in my mailbox at work. I’m flying from Virginia to Utah tomorrow morning to start a trip so I’ll be able to report if I have anything “Uber Official” from flight training planning.

So between now and then, I’m going to finish the training DVD, get the completion code for that and start cramming in limitations, systems and flows into my brain so I can hit “Virginia Avenue” running.

In case you didn’t already know, “Virginia Avenue” is kind of pilot-speak for the flight training center as it’s all on Virginia Avenue in Atlanta.