Cathay CPP Advanced Flight grading?

[ct976]

For those with more than 20 hours of flight experience, and have gone through the flight grading for cathay CPP, what is the advanced flight grading? I have heard its a B200 flight sim to do 3 ILS approaches, is that correct?

[sgsslok]

Not entirely.

You do 3 flights in the Grob, which covers takeoffs, BAC, stalls, steep turns, wing overs, simulated engine failures, circuits and landings.

You also do 3 sims in a B200 simulator, which covers stalls, steep turns, instrument BAC, VOR & NDB intercepting and tracking, RMI point-to-point navigation and ILS approaches.

[ct976]

what does BAC stand for?

[lhcdennis]

BAC = Basic Aircraft Control

[ct976]

thanks for the reply. i have a few more questions:

1. do you have to do any emergency procedures?

2. for the ILS approaches, is it straight-in only or the full procedure? for the full procedure, what is the entry methods for Australia?

3. what is point to point navigation on the RMI? is it just tracking from nav-aid to another nav-aid?

4. For the B200, did you fly single pilot or was it a 2 crew operation?

thanks for your help

[sgsslok]

1. Since you have to do a Practice Forced Landing/Simulated Engine Failure, I would imagine that they would expect you to be able to pick an emergency landing area and successfully position the aircraft to glide and land on that area.

2. It's just a straight-in approach.

3. Nope. You use the VOR and/or the NDB needle on the RMI and the DME to obtain your location, and they'll make you fly direct to another location relative to the navaid.

4. The check pilot sits on the right, but he doesn't do anything other than putting in radio frequencies for you. The plane, manifold pressure/RPM, flaps, gear.... all yours!

[cx007]

May i ask how many of u in the batch are going to do the advanced FG? Is it more than 50%?

[ct976]

whoever has more than 20 hrs flight time has to do advanced grading.


For the Simulated Engine failure, do you do the simulated forced approach on a field or on a road? what is the method in australia? 360 or the circuit pattern?