Week 68: A320 Type Rating Week 7

The final part of ground school was covered on Crew Resource Management(CRM) in two days. Before the start of the lessons, my instructor told us not to take this subject lightly and simply put it as "a tick in the box". In fact, many accidents in the past were due to lapse in CRM, therefore it is important that we treat this seriously and learn how to work in this new environment which we have no experience in yet.

Viewed lots of videos and discussed on different scenarios, voicing our individual opinions and concerns. It was an interesting topic which is very realistic and applicable. It reminded me of a scene in the US drama "Pan Am".

Yes, it is a little dramatised, but this can happen to any plane. How would you handle such a situation? There's no right or wrong answers as everyone has their own justifications during that point of time. What we as pilots want to do is to land safely at the end of the flight. The two days of lesson ended with a blink of an eye and that marks the completion of A320 ground school, which means we will all be promoted with a two bar ranking on our epaulette.

Today we attended a briefing on the next phase of training in the simulator. Phase 2A will commence next week and we will finally start training in the "boring big box" as they call it. I'm excited about it but also worried that I'll learn too slow as there seem to be a lot to be digested. Phase 2A will generally focus on aircraft control in manual mode.

So many things to do just in the take-off phase