Stopovers and ERO

Yesterday's sim was at midnight, so my sleep schedule is a little wonky for the week. I have another one tonight. Yesterday's sim was 4 hours long. It was a multi-leg mission involving four different airports, which is fairly realistic as far as I've been told. Our sim didn't involve any emergencies, so that was nice. The ceiling was so low at our third stop that we had to divert to the fourth location, so we didn't land where we had planned. The lessons are scripted though, so we knew it would happen. The whole thing was really an exercise in crew coordination. We had a Nav, and when you fly with a Nav, you're expected to make full use of his/her abilities and tools, so I tend to delegate the details of navigation to them. Our Nav did most of the preflight planning as far as the route of flight was concerned. Pilots decide which approaches to fly. I flew an ARA (airborne radar approach), which is like a PAR in that the Nav is using the aircraft radar to guide the pilot to the runway. It's pretty cool stuff. At one of the intermediate stops, we ran through the Engine Running Offload checklist, which was fairly straightforward, but good, because I hadn't seen it yet.

Off to sim again. Tonight is more instrument flying and checkride practice.