Week 66: A320 Type Rating Week 5

It's another pretty short week thanks to the Hari Raya public holiday on Monday. Started off the week on Tuesday with the airline's SOPs, briefly going through what's to be done, most of such information are needed during our sim sessions. Then in the second half of the day, we went through a stack of papers known as the Computer Flight Plan(CFP).

Within the CFP are very important details of the flight, from fuel calculations to flight plan to NOTAMs, everything that you need to know about the flight is right in here. I have to admit it's quite overwhelming looking at them when you have a flight coming up with tonnes of things to do.

Wednesday was a short one with roughly two hours of SOP practice in the sim, going through what we discussed the day before on SOPs. I'm getting more familiar with the systems each time I get my hands on the panels of controls in the A320. I learn something new everytime but there is always so much to learn.

The final day of the week on Thursday was pretty dry, with us going through Threat & Error Management-Approach And Landing Accident Reduction, and Take-off Safety. In short, it was like a "safety" day with the main focus on flight safety.

Next week we will be sitting for the final progress test. It will be the longest paper I've sat with 80questions set for us. It surely will be quite a nightmare studying for it as the A320 systems are so complex and so heavy, it's quite impossible to finish everything and yet be 100% sure of it within such a short span of time. I can only try my best not to do too badly for it.

WSSS NOTAM, part of the pretty thick CFP