First Week Of Ground School Complete

Thought I’d take a break from working right now to update you all on the first week of ground school here at CTC. We started off last Monday with Aircraft General Knowledge (AGK). We had three days of AGK covering topics such as Airframe stress and fatigue, Fuel Systems, Landing Gear, Hydraulics and Pneumatics. Thursday was a computer based training day (CBT day, we get one every week) to make sure we understand everything and to do some question banking. We moved straight onto the next topic, Principles of Flight (POF) last Friday, however we will be coming back to finish off AGK next week. So far in POF we have covered how lift is created over a wing, different types of drag and how wing vortices are created, it contains a lot more maths and physics and is basically just a load of formulas! Over this weekend it has taken me a bit of time to understand everything but I think I’m almost there, they like to confuse us by having a lot of different names for one thing.

CP107 

Boeing 737-800 Full Motion Simulator

Basically how the day works is we leave at 8.30am for a 9am start and finish around 4pm; then I get home, have a break for an hour or so and then continue working until around 10pm. It’s important to make sure you stay on top of the work as it is such a fast paced course and every lesson is something new. Falling behind would just make it 10 times more difficult! Most of the work is quite interesting, there are some not so interesting parts as well though; however it’s quite amazing how much I have learnt in just a week!

Doing some work outside today