ATP/Type Rating Complete!

Congrats Jordane!
 
Congrats!
 
I had a terrible night of sleep the night but I lucked out and had a noon start time. My sim partner was an upgrade captain and he reached out to me the day before and got some dinner. It was good because I had never flown with him before so we chatted and got to know each other. The examiner stayed in the same hotel as us and he told us we could catch the 12pm shuttle to the sim building. We were originally going to catch the 1130am so we'd be there on time but he said it's not necessary.

We arrived at our briefing room and took care of the paper work like any other checkride. The first part of the oral started off with a preflight pictorial where he showed us pictures of lights, probes, wings, engines, etc just like we would do a normal preflight. Some of them had errors like cracks, gear pins still installed, etc. my sim partner and I switched off pictures and all the examiner wanted was a "go" or "no go." It took about 5 minutes to complete. Next was the oral which consisted of mostly systems knowledge. Again, we were asked back and forth. My sim partner helped me out with about 2 questions. Oral was really straight forward and easy. We got handed out paperwork from ATL-MEM and was told to take a 15 minute break so the instructor could set up the sim. We got settled in and the captain was PF first. We had a main battery circuit breaker popped. Talked to "dispatch" and "maintanance" and they reset it for us. We had ACARS deferred and one of the engine cowl over pressure relief valves were blown. We checked the MEL and logbooks to make sure every was written up and deferred correctly. It was a really cold, crappy day in ATL so we reviewed out low visibility SMGCS charts and talked about how we would taxi nice and slow. While I was doing my before takeoff flow, I noticed our fuel was below min fuel so I advised the captain and the examiner just said good catch, you can continue taxiing. When we got to about 10000 feet, we had a HYD 1B low pressure. No problem, captain called for the QRH and it was uneventful. Weather in MEM was 1/4 mi vis overcast 100ft which meant a CATII approach. We did the arrival and approach fine and broke out at minimums. Parked at the gate and took a break.

My leg was up next. Got our paper work and had the same deferrals. Taxied out, normal takeoff. About 3000ft we had an left engine fire. Asked for the left engine fire immediate action item card and the captain ran through that as well as single engine procedures and single engine approach and landing in the QRH. We asked for delaying vectors in order to run our checklist which is rather lengthy. After we got everything set up, we were offered the ILS with a decent crosswind or a LOC with the winds right down the runway back into MEM. Captain said it was my decision and I decided to go with the LOC. We still had the our AP so it wasn't a big deal. With single engine approaches, we do a max of flaps 20. Our ref speed was around 150. We fly ref plus 5 so I was doing about 155 on the approach. I floated a little on the landing but we had plenty of runway. We stopped on the runway and fire rescue said there's no smoke and said it looked good. We taxied to the gate and the examiner told us we both did a great job and passed. We finished up the paper work and did a debrief which consisted of the various threats during the flights, how we recognized them, how we managed then, were there errors made, and did it turn into an undesired aircraft state. That was it! I have my fresh ATP and CL-65 type. As a 22 year old I'm really living the dream!

Here's my thread starting from accepting the job offer until now https://www.pilotsofamerica.com/community/threads/someones-going-to-be-an-airline-pilot.90454/
 
Hey thats an rATP! Also I was told that for the ATP initial that the oral had to be done solo. Cool write up. I'm sure you're ecstatic that is finally over. Long time coming !
 
NJP_MAN said:
Hey thats an rATP! Also I was told that for the ATP initial that the oral had to be done solo. Cool write up. I'm sure you're ecstatic that is finally over. Long time coming !
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Yea I didn't even know I could be paired up with an upgrade captain because I'm not technically qualified to sit in the right seat.
 
jordane93 said:
Yea I didn't even know I could be paired up with an upgrade captain because I'm not technically qualified to sit in the right seat.
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Did they make you get in the left seat at some point to taxi it to the gate ? I know it happens but not sure if everyone has to do it.
 
Congrats Jordane. Have fun out on the line.
 
NJP_MAN said:
Did they make you get in the left seat at some point to taxi it to the gate ? I know it happens but not sure if everyone has to do it.
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During our sim sessions we took turns taxiing when we were PM. We got to practice with the tiller and taxiing as well as doing some captain functions.
 
jordane93 said:
Yea I didn't even know I could be paired up with an upgrade captain because I'm not technically qualified to sit in the right seat.
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No different than the way I did it 9 months ago, neither one of us was qualified in either seat for the type ride.
 
Of course I had to snap a few pictures. Looks like they're letting the kid fly!

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Congratulations ATP Jordan!!
 
Congrats sir.

I love that you snuck the "Living the Dream" meme in there on the write up. LOL...
 
Looks like they are letting the kid fly. First day of IOE happened really quick. I'm still getting used the pace and trying to get my landings down.The captain is awesome and he's letting me fly as many legs as I'm comfortable with. Almost done with this 4 day trip.

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How cool...I wish I was you haha...I'm thinking I may leave engineering to do this someday. Good luck looks like a hell of a job!
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Enjoy those highspeeds...
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Haven't done any yet so far! My September schedule is complete garbage. I'm the most junior lineholder and I have all high speeds. I'm flying JFK-BWI almost the entire month with a ORF trip mixed in. Yay.
 
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NJP_MAN said:
Doesn't only the captain taxi? Hard to take a high speed when you don't have a tiller. Maybe there is enough rudder effectiveness though I don't know.
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Highspeeds, aka, CDO's, Standups, Illegals, and a variety of other things.
 
jordane93 said:
Haven't done any yet so far! My September schedule is complete garbage. I'm the most junior lineholder and I have all high speeds. I'm flying JFK-BWI almost the entire month with a ORF trip mixed in. Yay.
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Complete garbage? You won't sit reserve more than about 2 weeks once you finish OE. Tell that to a guy who did 5 years of reserve here and then complain about having a line the first month...
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Highspeeds, aka, CDO's, Standups, Illegals, and a variety of other things.
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I'm not quite caught up on the 121 jargon. I do know the other references though. Just hadn't heard them called high speeds. Thanks for the clarification.
 
NJP_MAN said:
Doesn't only the captain taxi? Hard to take a high speed when you don't have a tiller. Maybe there is enough rudder effectiveness though I don't know.
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You should have enough rudder travel to exit a high speed taxiway. Don't need a tiller for that.
 
NJP_MAN said:
I'm not quite caught up on the 121 jargon. I do know the other references though. Just hadn't heard them called high speeds. Thanks for the clarification.
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It's an old thing from back in the Metroliner days, from what I've been told. Calling them highspeeds at least
 
Jordan - you're living in base, right? Why not bid reserve until you can hold a better line? Or is reserve just miserable there? I've never done a stand up overnight, but they sound terrible.
 
kayoh190 said:
Jordan - you're living in base, right? Why not bid reserve until you can hold a better line? Or is reserve just miserable there? I've never done a stand up overnight, but they sound terrible.
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Correct. I probably could have done that. I have a feeling it will get better though. The last few classes they've been sticking people exclusively in JFK or LGA so I think I'll only have do these high speeds this month.
 
jordane93 said:
Correct. I probably could have done that. I have a feeling it will get better though. The last few classes they've been sticking people exclusively in JFK or LGA so I think I'll only have do these high speeds this month.
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One thing people don't realize is, say you have 4 highspeeds in a row and there is an open time trip of 4 day, you can swap that, as it doesn't effect the reserve staffing levels since you aren't making things worse. I had a month where I had a CDO line, managed to not fly a single CDO the whole month via open time. I would very much encourage you to get familiar with how FLICA works.
 
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