keepmovingon
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Finished up my check ride on Friday. Like how I did for academics, I'll give my AAR(nobody asked, but I enjoyed reading these so I'll give back):
NIFE Flight is a 9-event syllabus consisting of two cockpit trainers and 7 flights. It is run through a civilian organization called SkyWarrior, that largely consists of prior military instructors. The "flight school" you will be attached to only serves the purpose of training NIFE Enigns.
On Wednesday, you check in to your airport(either Jack Edwards or PNS) and receive a welcome brief. Then Thursday and Friday you will have CPT(cockpit trainer) I and II. You are expected to come to these CPTs with sufficient knowledge of the FTI as required. You sit in a "cutout" of a cockpit and simulate each maneuver and pattern procedure while talking through it.
Then you can you be scheduled to fly as early as that Monday following your second CPT. You can expect to fly seven times in seven days, but with weather cancellations backups are common. You progressively move through the syllabus, performing basically the same maneuvers, but doing so with less and less coaching. By the time you get to the 7th flight you are expected to be able to depart safely via course rules, perform high work maneuvers within standards, perform an Emergency Landing Pattern, and to all of the traffic pattern work/communications/landings/touch&go's without any coaching. You are responsible for all the information in the ~150 page FTI that contains instruction on how to do everything. You can be asked to do anything or delineate any information in there, so it's very important you put the time in to study, not just learn "on the fly". I went to the simulator on base prior to my first flight and did everything they required 10x over. It made me proficient in my maneuvers on the first demo flight. Using the simulator removed a lot of unnecessary stress and made it easy.
Chair Fly Chair Fly Chair Fly. Simulate Simulate Simulate. STUDY!! All of your high work maneuvers, pattern, ground work etc should be second nature.
NIFE 2 is like learning how to fly a lawnmower, but you would be surprised how many people fail. My classmates onwing partner just failed his check ride, and two of my other classmates failed out of flight phase. You can teach this stuff to a monkey, but only if the monkey puts in enough time. After you have your fun on flight suit Friday, hunker down for a week, treat the FTI like a Bible and the simulator like an addictive video game.
The wait for primary is like 5 months so I'll see you in 2027 for my Primary Gouge
NIFE Flight is a 9-event syllabus consisting of two cockpit trainers and 7 flights. It is run through a civilian organization called SkyWarrior, that largely consists of prior military instructors. The "flight school" you will be attached to only serves the purpose of training NIFE Enigns.
On Wednesday, you check in to your airport(either Jack Edwards or PNS) and receive a welcome brief. Then Thursday and Friday you will have CPT(cockpit trainer) I and II. You are expected to come to these CPTs with sufficient knowledge of the FTI as required. You sit in a "cutout" of a cockpit and simulate each maneuver and pattern procedure while talking through it.
Then you can you be scheduled to fly as early as that Monday following your second CPT. You can expect to fly seven times in seven days, but with weather cancellations backups are common. You progressively move through the syllabus, performing basically the same maneuvers, but doing so with less and less coaching. By the time you get to the 7th flight you are expected to be able to depart safely via course rules, perform high work maneuvers within standards, perform an Emergency Landing Pattern, and to all of the traffic pattern work/communications/landings/touch&go's without any coaching. You are responsible for all the information in the ~150 page FTI that contains instruction on how to do everything. You can be asked to do anything or delineate any information in there, so it's very important you put the time in to study, not just learn "on the fly". I went to the simulator on base prior to my first flight and did everything they required 10x over. It made me proficient in my maneuvers on the first demo flight. Using the simulator removed a lot of unnecessary stress and made it easy.
Chair Fly Chair Fly Chair Fly. Simulate Simulate Simulate. STUDY!! All of your high work maneuvers, pattern, ground work etc should be second nature.
NIFE 2 is like learning how to fly a lawnmower, but you would be surprised how many people fail. My classmates onwing partner just failed his check ride, and two of my other classmates failed out of flight phase. You can teach this stuff to a monkey, but only if the monkey puts in enough time. After you have your fun on flight suit Friday, hunker down for a week, treat the FTI like a Bible and the simulator like an addictive video game.
The wait for primary is like 5 months so I'll see you in 2027 for my Primary Gouge
