Academics

The last three days have all been academics - lectures and computer based lessons, followed by reading and preparing at home. There is just so much information with this new aircraft. It's huge, has four engines and a million other systems. The interesting part is that most of the systems are mechanical as opposed to electrical in nature since it was built before the advent of the microprocessor. Having fewer electronics has the interesting effect of making the aircraft much more robust and reliable. So far we've covered the engines, props, and normal checklists. Tomorrow we have a review and the first cockpit familiarization trainer sim. On Friday there's a test over everything.