Chris's Short Lived
JSUPT Diary
The next sim...........
Armed with my new series of ground training and my lessons learned from my first sim, I was ready for my next one. By this time, some of my class mates had already gone on their "dollar ride." That's your first ride of the course, tradition is you give the instructor a dollar becuase it is a gimme ride and nothing in pilot training is free.
The second sim is purely emergency procedures. Lights come on in the cockpit and you have to actually practice what you spent the last few weeks learning to recite. There were engine fire below abort speed, above abort speed, flat tires and the like. In fact I caused a flat tire braking to hard during a takeoff abort.
Even having memorized the actually procedure, it is easy to get in to a hurry and goof it up. You have to slow your body down, sanity check what you are doing, and then make the right move. In an emergency, you have more time than you thing and being right is more important than being fast.
My pre-briefing and ground ops were both Unsat this time. I got to cocky and didn't practice them. I also goofed my communication and transition to landing. But I did have the EPs down pat and my GK was where it needed to be. Overall grade for the sim was Good
The JSUPT page In the Beginning.. On the Flightline....... Avoiding Airsickness ....
So here it is, summed up in a few flights and a handful of sims, kinda depressing when I see it laid out so simply, so small, so short. I only made it a few flights after solo. But if it helps anyone or entertains anyone, then maybe it was worth it Sim 1 Sim 2 Flight 1 Sim 3 Flight 2 Flight 3 Flight 4 Flight 5 Sim 4 Sim 5 Flight 6 Flight 7 Sim 6 Flight 8 Flight 9 Flight 10 Sim7 Sim 8 Flight 11 Flight 12 Sim 9 Flight 13 Flight1 4 Sim 10 Flight 15 Flight 16 Flight 17 Flight 18 Flight 19 Flight 20 Flight 21 Flight 22 Flight 23 Flight 24 Flight 25 Flight 26 Flight 27 Flight 28
