Phase 4
Congrats for making it this far, you've obviously got the bones of what their looking for. I sat and pased my stage 4 oh 25th Jan 2007. I was fortunate enough to speak to a recently qualified First Officer who has done sim checks at CTC who was able to give me a few tips on how to approach it.
Firstly, as I've already mentioned, to reach this far you've already shown you've got the aptitude and the motivation to make and they are know really looking to confirm what they've already seen.
In my opinion, and I appreciate others may think otherwise, but there are a few key areas they are really focussing on at this stage.
1. Trainability - if you demonstrate the ability to learn and be tought then implement flying techniques
2. Attitude - if your approach to the flight deck is a healthy one with a view to a career.
3. Self awareness - debriefing yourself on what you did wrong and looking to improve it
4. Personality - would the assesor want to spend the Manchester - Alicante run with you or would he rather sandpaper his eyeballs......?
6. And obviously, raw flying talent.
This list is by no means exclusive and as I said is only what I picked up through my experience. My Assesor was Lee Woodrow (the head of the wings program). I honestly could not have asked for a nicer, and more genuine guy to ases me and this made a huge difference in settling my nerves. I'm sure all the assesors havethe same ethos in their approach to this phase.
I hope this is of some help to you, and my final tip to you would be relax and enjoy this experience. Afterall, this could potentially be your future career and no mater how good an actor you are, once your working in the sim, your true colours shine through.
Good luck
Air Kojak
P.S. If your on the early sim, try going the night before to sainsbury's just up the road and picking up some stuff for breakfast for the morning. The morning slots start at 06.45 and I know the Premiere Travel Inn doesn't starts beakie til 7am.