After only 20 days of instruction, intermediate is already over! Starting on the 9th and finishing last Wednesday (the 28th) with another competency assurance, we managed to fly 13 profiles, all with the motion finally switched on. I'm pleased to say that I completed the CA with no major issues, so am enjoying a week off ahead of the advanced. Fortunately this week roughly coincided with mine and Alice's one year, so we went to Smith and Western for some top notch Texan cowboy style dining.
To give a flavour of the intermediate CA, with our recently acquired skills in the multi-crew environment we were expecting some sort our failure that would require us to work as a team to resolve the situation. The focus was in fact performing overweight landings, so the three scenarios we were given all pushed us to prep the aircraft quickly and make an approach. These included a bomb threat, an APU fire (which was mine) and smoke in the cabin, with the resultant drills tobe followed in response.
In all cases we were put into a situation where we were forced to work quickly, but had to avoid the temptation to rush in an effort to prevent mistakes being made. The theory is that if you take your time and do it right, you won't have to do it again! That's not to say you take hours considering every possible detail, but equally you don't need to jump straight in and start a plan which ultimately might be the wrong one.
With Advanced starting on Saturday with a day in the classroom, I can finally see the end in sight and a first summer zooming all over Europe. The lads on EZMP01 have been through induction with easyJet, and are now waiting for uniform and their first flights as rosters have started to arrive. It must be so exciting for them, and a demonstration just how close qualification is!
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