Type rating tips

Question 1

Type Rating Tips

Answer 1

Know the aircraft & the cockpit before even sitting at the sim session

Breakdown
• Cockpit familiarity
• Checklists
• Scan flow
• Limitations
• Normal Procedures (before taxi, run up, Normal takeoff, climb, cruise, descent, after landing)
• Emergency Procedures
• Systems
• FMS
• IFR (precision, non-precision, LNAV VNAV, RNP)
• Profiles (Given a/c configuration & the normal a/s & power settings to achieve a configuration)
• Known issues & challenges