4th day at SimCom now, one to go. Have a good instructor, Juan Rodriguez, who flew Commanders in the Colombian Air Force before he moved to the US. He knows them really well and is also a working pilot and CFII ME Gold Star Instructor etc in real life, which is good. I'd recommend him.
Unfortunately, the training for the 840 takes place in a 690B simulator, so it's a little schizophrenic - we talk about 840 systems in the class, but what the checklist and what I'm actually flying is a 690B. And it's a really old sim. Motion is not very good, display isn't very good (only displays on one screen right in front of you, nothing in the others, so no peripheral imagery), all steam. Another very annoying thing is that the sim A/P doesn't have ALT hold, so your workload goes up exponentially in the emergencies. Having to chase the altitude when you have a million other things to do is kinda annoying. But I suppose it's good learning - that could happen in real life. Mainly done a lot of engine emergencies, looking to do electrical and avionics today.
I think this was the right thing for me to do and I've gotten something out of it. Also, since I haven't flown for 7 months, it's good to knock some of the IR rust off and get fresh currency and IPC. I just wish the sim was better and it cost less.
