A330 Training Questions

[oicur12]

Hey all.

I would like to get some perspective as to how other airlines conduct conversion training on the A330 (or any jet really)

Does your airline have a cold weather checklist to cover all the various references for de ice.

Does your airline teach the de crab technique for landing in crosswind or do you touch down without "kicking it straight".

Are you required to hard tune vor/ndb for every approach even with GPS primary.

Thanks.

[kingoftheslipstream]

oic...

we say that a lot in response to the trainers at the carrier I am with... "Oh, I see..."

seriously,

we do not have a checklist in the QRH, we have this huge matrix on a single sheet of paper with all kinds of bull!!!! on it that we use in conjunction with FCOM Vol 3, supplementry procedures.

I have flown for a carrier which had a SINGLE PAGE in its QRH for de/anti-ice. It is possible...

We de-crab for crosswind by kickin' 'er straight.

We do not hard tune ANY navaids for precision or non-precision when we have GPS primary. (if you want to "dialogue" with the instructor, ask him what the RAIM check is for... if the FMGC passes this check prior to an approach, you have plenty of redundancy... he might not even know what the RAIM check is, or is for)