Having passed the oral, it was on to the flight! It's just a matter of looking up the proper numbers for weight, temperature and altitude. Now it was time to figure out our Takeoff and Landing Data for our TOLD cards. You see, the Citation II is not a new airplane, and this video was made quite a while ago. Since I had (literally) used the video to help me fall asleep a couple times at night (yes, really), this was also no problem. He'd ask "what is the pilot checking now? What is he looking for?" - those kind of questions. There is a video we had watched in class about the preflight, so he just played it and muted the sound. Since we didn't exactly have an actual airplane in the building, it was a bit funny how they did this. Fortunately, there were no questions like "draw a schematic of the electrical system" or "how many holes are in the speedbrakes?" "What happens when we turn the engine anti-ice system on?" "How long should the surface deice light be on for once activated?" "If the AC Fail light comes on, what systems do you have left?" These also were pretty straightforward, taken from the training materials and ground school lessons. He then went to a large poster of the cockpit on the wall and proceeded to ask us questions about various buttons and switches and the systems they controlled.
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