Airline Ground School

[PilotDerek (Derek)]

Hey folks, I start airline ground school/training in April with SKW. Just looking for any tips to help myself (and potentially others) be fully prepared for the time in training. (CRJ)

[Adam]

Derek,

Congrats on SkyWest. I’m sure Hannah can give you some great info as she recently went through training but guaranteed once you get in there will be a gouge (or 3) floating around. Be prepared to work hard and you’ll be fine.

Adam

[Hannah]

Derek,
Check this out. Basically you’ll receive your company iPad with access to your manuals about a week prior. There really isn’t much you can do to prepare just be sharp with your instrument knowledge and ready to work hard. You can look up some very popular Op specs like C060 & C078. Plus be very familiar with alternate rules and exemption 17347. Knowing these ahead of time will give you more time to focus on other study items during Indoc.

Initial 121 Training

For those that saw, I made this post in my biography section a few months back. However, since then I’ve heard and seen so many questions about what to expect for initial 121 training. So here it is… (Disclaimer, this was my experience at Skywest. Every regional has their own training footprint but at least this gives you a good idea…) Indoc I started Indoc virtually on July 26th on the CRJ. In 4 short days we covered the whole FOM (Flight operations manual). It covers all sorts of things fro…

-Hannah

[PilotDerek (Derek)]

Thanks for that Adam!

[PilotDerek (Derek)]

Thanks Hannah, see you around!