NW3 hope you enjoy your time at Jerez.
The question you ask and the way you've phrased it show me to some extent why you've got yourself a sponsorship. You've shown a genuine interest in the "big picture" and realise that when you come out with your shiny new F-ATPL/IR you are in many ways only at the beginning of a very steep learning curve. But enough praise from me!
The stuff you're talking about will be covered to some extent by the airline when you join. But you will essentially be "green", and expected to use your own initiative to find out what you need to know about crewing, scheduling etc.
On the type rating course you'll do two to three weeks groundschool covering all the systems on the aircraft with exams. Then into the sim for about twelve (varies between operators) 4 hour sessions teamed up usually with another trainee f/o. You'll fly all the profiles, eg take-offs, SIDs, engine failures, approaches of all kinds, emergency descents, hydraulic failures, and all sorts of non-normals, etc etc. At the end of this a skill test - a bit like an expanded IR with emergencies.
Somewhere around this time you'll do smoke drills in a cabin mock-up, evacuation down the proper slides, fire training and dinghy drills in the pool. All this usually with cabin crew trainers, and often with experienced Captains and f/o's doing their recurrent training (except the dinghy drills, which only need to be done once on joining).
Also a performance course in here somewhere to. This will teach you to use company performance charts and get max take-off weight and V speeds for all sorts of runway and aircraft configs.
Then you'll start your line training, still feeling very very very green. This is when you'll get down to the nitty gritty of actually performimg as a part of the crew, and really learning to fly and operate the aircraft for real.
All of this will feel like a huge rush, and you'll most likely suffer from information overload, but it all works out in the end. After about six months on line you'll really start to settle down into the way of the job, and there'll be less situations which seem totally new to you.
Airlines will definitely not spoon feed you, so you'll find a lot of it's up to you. The answers are usually somewhere in the company manuals. If not there, then ask someone. And the rest comes down to a lot of experience. That's why it generally takes a lot of time to get into the left hand seat. You'll find stages in your career when you think you know it all - 100 hours, getting your IR, six months on type and 1000 hours spring to mind. Then around 3000 hours when you're itching to get a command. Then about 1000 hours of command time etc. It's when you look back at these milestones that you realise you had so much more to learn but didn't know it at the time. That's my experience anyway.
Main thing is, don't worry about all this at the moment, just climb the ladder one rung at a time, and really
enjoy your time at Jerez.
The best of luck.
