Originally Posted by
Danieltorning
anyone done the AQC
I feel like it would be a waste of money if u don't pass the AQC, read somewhere that som guys do. What to expect?
Week of CRM ground school.
Week of MCC = 5 four hour sims. Automatics.
Week of JOC - 4 four hour sims. All manual flight except when you're briefing.
In 737-300/737-700 FBS.
While the course is built around developing your non-technical skills it's also very much a marker of your suitability for type rating. How quickly can you pick up SOP's, procedures, aircraft technical knowledge, smooth manual flight, CRM, multi-crew ops. You will be pushed very hard with failures and wx and complicated lesson plans, lots of procedural instrument flying. Strange how often ATC Radar became 'broken' in that sim as soon as you asked for vectors
I did it early this year so it may have changed somewhat but one of the manual sims was LGW-STN at 250kts via a very complicated SID straight onto a STAR, with an engine fire and thick FG chucked in for good measure = very damp forehead!
It's perfectly achievable but you won't find many trainees who've done the course who won't say it was bloody hard work.
The thing with CTC is the training is very good, but it's delivered very quickly. You need to be able to keep up with the steep learning curve.