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Today was another “line oriented flight training” day. Took off from Las Vegas on the COWBOY departure with a “low altitude hold down”, and then proceeded enroute towards Atlanta.
A ‘low altitude hold down’ is when instead of climbing initially to say, 10,000 feet, we’re stopping at 1500′ AGL which can be a BEAR in a light 767 because the aircraft… I mean flight training device… climbs like a homesick angel with the PW4060’s.
Naturally, during training, you always end up diverting to another airport so we practiced some FMS procedures, a hold entry and diverted into PHX. Strangely, PHX had 1/2 visibility in blowing sand and all of the glideslopes were out which meant we were going to execute the ILS 26 GS OUT approach.
Since the flight training device doesn’t have a visual, obviously at DA (Yup, VNAV approaches use a “DA” which is actually “MDA”) it was “go around power, flaps 20″ to the holding pattern.
Sometimes during training, the instructor will take a ’snapshot’ during some point on the approach in order to ‘rewind’ or ’snap back’ to that configuration, airspeed and position on the arrival. This enables him to give the captain the aircraft and have him practice the same approach.
Obviously it involved a missed approach which the captain called out “TOGA pow…”
BAM!
What the heck?
Apparently the instructor believes in a little negative reinforcement so he had slapped his hand against one of the manuals and reminded us that it’s “GO AROUND POWER” and not “TOGA” because there IS no “TOGA” button in a 757/767.
Remember? They’re THRUST LEVERS not THROTTLES even though we have AUTOTHROTTLES.
It scared the crap out of me, but I guess the trainer got his point across and John and I were able to get the missed approach accomplished without incident even though the verbiage was a little off.
We took a break, came back and shot some LOC/BC approaches into Daytona Beach and a few electrical malfunctions.
Basic after landing and shutdown flows and called it a day.
Tomorrow we have another instructor and apparently, the new instructor is being observed by another instructor for training so chances are that it could get a little interesting.
It’s going to be a tough day tomorrow because we’ve got about 7 hours of stuff in a four hour flight training device period and we have a “Procedures Validation” (checkride) in the flight training device on tuesday afternoon before we’re cleared to begin full flight simulator training.
Now if I could just get used to how the seats work, I’ll be happy…
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