| The sim they use is a Chieftain
that some drug runner had crashed.
Amerfllight bought the wrecked
plane and and made the cockpit into a
sim. When you get
into this sim you feel like you're getting into a
real airplane because it's
the REAL thing. They give you a real basic
checklist and tell you to
follow it. He really emphasized that I follow
it. It gives you the
power settings for each phase of flight. They
also tell you to only worry
about the MP, RPM, gear, and the regular
Instrument gages. Don't worry about any of the engine
gages, mixture,
flaps. They will play the
role of ATC so you have to make all the
frequency changes and radio
calls. My ride was to depart BUR with radar
vectors to the VNY VOR and
than you are cleared for the approach. While
descending on the ILS, he
failed the glide slope. I announced to "ATC"
that I hade glide slope
failure and that I would be descending to
localizer minimums. He than shut it off - didn't even
go down to
minimums. The one
thing that helped me is that he told me to take my
time and get everything
set up before I takeoff. At this point I tuned
and ID'd my VOR and ILS
frequency and briefed the approach - all before
I even took off! After
he shuts it off, he asks you what you could have
done better. They
don't expect you to master the sim (it flies like a
heavy Chieftain) but they
do expect you to anaylize your flight and tell
them what you could fave
done differently (i.e. could have maintained
altitude a little better,
should have turned to the heading a little
sooner etc.). This
is not necessarily the sim ride they always give. I
know two people who did
departures and approaches at Ontario and Santa
Monica. Amerflight
is a good company and is loosing lots of pilots to
the Commuters. By
the way, I was hired with less than their published
minimums (but you do need
to have at least 100 multi and the IFR 135
mins.)
Be sure to tell people
that the sim can be different than the one in
your summary (they use many
different so. cal. approaches. Also you may
mention that they may fail
the glideslope or radios during the flight.
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