Time is ticking away, there are only a few weeks left before the "holiday" week between christmas and new year. In a few weeks, we'll be halfway the theoretical training (3 months). This week there are 2 progress checks on the schedule: electrics (the 3th and last part: Alternating Current) and communications (the theoretical part of it).
Today, we started with a new course: performance. This is given by a pilot who used to work for Sabena, didn't fly for a while after the bankruptcy of Sabena and who's now flying again on the Airbus A320 with Thomas Cook.
It's not an easy course, but there are a lot things we saw in other courses coming back (air law, principles of flight, ...) which makes most thing clear :-).
Thursday we're gonna have a technical briefing of BFC (basic flying course), starting at 7.30AM and after that, in the afternoon, we have the progress check of communications. Looks like it's gonna be a loooong day. I'm already looking forward to the weekend :-).
Well, time to cook with current, inductance and impedance; Electrics !
cheers!
Pieter
Monday, November 26, 2007
Sunday, November 18, 2007
observationflight #02: LTBA
destination: LTBA, Istanbul Ataturk, Turkey
date: 17/11/2007
type of aircraft & registration: Airbus A320-200, OO-TCK
same procedure as my previous flight: arrive nicely on time (2h before schedulded departure), review the flight plan and other documents (load sheet, weather docs, ...) and of course, greet the flight attendants, captain and first officer :-).
Stefaan, the captain and Christ'l, the first officer, were both very good pilots ! They explained me a lot about the FMC, the differences between a boeing 737 and an Airbus A320, the fuel calculations, ... .
Departure was from RWY 25R, with the SOPOK SID (standard instrumental departure), ILS landing on RWY 06 at LTBA. Afterwards departure on 36R and finally a STAR (standard arrival) via FLORA on RWY25L.
and now the most interesting part: the pics :-) enjoy !
date: 17/11/2007
type of aircraft & registration: Airbus A320-200, OO-TCK
same procedure as my previous flight: arrive nicely on time (2h before schedulded departure), review the flight plan and other documents (load sheet, weather docs, ...) and of course, greet the flight attendants, captain and first officer :-).
Stefaan, the captain and Christ'l, the first officer, were both very good pilots ! They explained me a lot about the FMC, the differences between a boeing 737 and an Airbus A320, the fuel calculations, ... .
Departure was from RWY 25R, with the SOPOK SID (standard instrumental departure), ILS landing on RWY 06 at LTBA. Afterwards departure on 36R and finally a STAR (standard arrival) via FLORA on RWY25L.
and now the most interesting part: the pics :-) enjoy !
Friday, November 16, 2007
Brussels Airlines: new callsign
from the NOTAM's (notice to airmen) of Belgocontrol:
That reminds me about a remark of our instructor of Flight Planning (Tim, pilot at Brussels Airlines): some people sugested "beatle" (say: bé-tail) ... what a pitty they didn't took that one !
Tomorrow I'll have my second observation flight, this time with Thomas Cook, to Istanbul (Ataturk, LTBA), their callsign ... THOMAS COOK. How original :-). But of course, I'm still looking forward to my first observation flight with them, the first one in an airbus A320!
A1592/2007
Valid from : 14/11/2007 00:00 Until : PERM
Text : BRUSSELS AIRLINES ACFT OPERATOR WILL USE NEW RADIO TELEPHONY DESIGNATOR ''BEE-LINE'' IN THEIR COMMUNICATION WITH ATC UNITS INFO WILL BE INCLUDED IN NEXT EDITION OF ICAO DOC 8585
That reminds me about a remark of our instructor of Flight Planning (Tim, pilot at Brussels Airlines): some people sugested "beatle" (say: bé-tail) ... what a pitty they didn't took that one !
Tomorrow I'll have my second observation flight, this time with Thomas Cook, to Istanbul (Ataturk, LTBA), their callsign ... THOMAS COOK. How original :-). But of course, I'm still looking forward to my first observation flight with them, the first one in an airbus A320!
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
day 37 - 07 nov 2007
Time ... I could use a bit more of that ! This week we started with the basic flying courses (BFC). What's this about? Well, to explain it on a simple way: take flight simulator 2004, a yoke, pedals and a throttle panel and learn to fly (using a pitch-power table). It isn't that easy as you might think: you have to do everything very precise and fast enough, and do 2 things at the same time: bank & climb/descent. So, while you use your left hand to control the yoke (turn, climb), you use you right hand to move the throttle (climb => RPM increase of the engine to maintain the same speed).
Besides that, of course, the other courses continue. At the end of the month we'll have the last progress check of Electrics (AC) ... I'll be happy when that part is over :-).
Besides that, of course, the other courses continue. At the end of the month we'll have the last progress check of Electrics (AC) ... I'll be happy when that part is over :-).
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Results Progress Checks
- Instrumentation: 63% (73% for the Multiple choice part, 53% for the open questions), next time better !
- Meteorology: 80%
- Basic Navigation: 75%
Friday, October 26, 2007
day 30 - 26 okt 2007
Hi,
after a nice but also intensive weekend with not a lot of sleep ("kadervormingsweekend", AFS -> workshops, seeing people back, 2 parties, ...), we started this week with flight planning and air law, in the evening revision of radio navigation for the courses of tuesday morning, general navigation in the afternoon, psychology and instrumentation on wednesday, Basic Flying Course briefing thursday morning, in the afternoon time to study Meteorology for the Progress Check of today. And then there was also Physio this morning. As you can read: a well - filled week with variation !!! The basic flying courses are actually practical courses, on a "normal" pc (with flight simulator 2004) but with a yoke, pedals and a throtthle panel. Sounds easy, but I think it won't be that easy (multitasking !). The briefing on thursday morning (7h30 AM - 1h20 PM) was an long and intensive one ... .
This weekend I'll be studying basic navigation, we have our first progress check about that on monday. Next week will be filled with basic navigation and communications, instrumentation and on thursday a day off. Looking forward to the schedule of november.
exhausted (but happy) greetings
Pieter
after a nice but also intensive weekend with not a lot of sleep ("kadervormingsweekend", AFS -> workshops, seeing people back, 2 parties, ...), we started this week with flight planning and air law, in the evening revision of radio navigation for the courses of tuesday morning, general navigation in the afternoon, psychology and instrumentation on wednesday, Basic Flying Course briefing thursday morning, in the afternoon time to study Meteorology for the Progress Check of today. And then there was also Physio this morning. As you can read: a well - filled week with variation !!! The basic flying courses are actually practical courses, on a "normal" pc (with flight simulator 2004) but with a yoke, pedals and a throtthle panel. Sounds easy, but I think it won't be that easy (multitasking !). The briefing on thursday morning (7h30 AM - 1h20 PM) was an long and intensive one ... .
This weekend I'll be studying basic navigation, we have our first progress check about that on monday. Next week will be filled with basic navigation and communications, instrumentation and on thursday a day off. Looking forward to the schedule of november.
exhausted (but happy) greetings
Pieter
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