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DVA1966
Captain, B777-200

Joined on October 11 2004
Everett 250 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club

Grafton, WI USA

408 legs, 1,927.0 hours
38 legs, 111.7 hours online
234 legs, 1,139.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 1.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 13 2004 05:44 ET by Thomas Bate

I just got the 727 as an additional rating, and passed the test. I am thinking about going into the 727 program, but I don't know how to take the test to do that, and I am practicing the check flight that I have flunked every time. I have not recorded it, but how do I get into the 727 program if I cannot retake the test to stwich programs?

AFV011
Senior Captain, B777-300

Joined on September 19 2004
GVA 5 Year Anniversary
Online Two Fifty Club
Triple Century Club
Historic Triple Century Club

"Remember...140, 250, and REALLY FAST"
Midwestern United States

394 legs, 606.7 hours
274 legs, 430.6 hours online
86 legs, 126.5 hours ACARS
8 legs, 16.0 hours event
501 legs, 763.5 hours total

Posted onPost created on November 13 2004 16:01 ET by Michael Carter

Contact Lewis Gregory about taking the test again. Are you failing the written or practical exam?

DVA1427
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on December 14 2003
Online Double Century Club
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Globetrotter
Moose Club
US Capital Club
Everett 250 Club
Quincentenary Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Livin' in the Dog Pound!"
Kannapolis, NC

558 legs, 1,984.3 hours
250 legs, 611.8 hours online
384 legs, 1,530.5 hours ACARS
38 legs, 82.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 13 2004 16:21 ET by Lewis Gregory

Thomas:

Once you pass the test, you've passed the test. You don't have to retake it. If you passed it just to get an additional rating, it still counts if you want to switch into the 727 program.

As for the checkride, all I can tell you is keep hammering at it. Blame Matt Creed, he came up with a nice evil one didn't he? smile

Have you had any luck with the throttles and reverse thrust?

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on November 13 2004 17:50 ET by Thomas Bate

I have had luck with the Throttles and reverse thrust. Because I have a Joystick and a yoke, I had the Joystick throttle setup on the throttle and the yoke throttle set on the Propeller axis for the Beech Baron 58 ect.

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 04:30 ET by Michael Carter

What problems are you having in flying the B722 Tom?

DVA1041
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
E-MAIL

Joined on January 15 2003
Double Century Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Fly Delta Jets!"
Cincinnati, OH

233 legs, 780.6 hours
66 legs, 123.7 hours online
20 legs, 39.6 hours ACARS
5 legs, 7.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 10:47 ET by Matt Creed

LOL Moose, if the checkride was THAT evil you wouldn't have kept it, now would you? ;-)

Matt Creed (DVA1041)

DVA1650
Captain, L-1011-100

Joined on April 24 2004
Century Club

"The O-N-L-Y Way to Fly!"
Southeastern United States

103 legs, 174.7 hours
49 legs, 94.5 hours online
2 legs, 2.1 hours ACARS
2 legs, 3.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 11:29 ET by Daniel Malneritch

It's evil. I'm surprised you even passed me! wink

Daniel Malneritch

Captain, L-1011-100

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 12:30 ET by Lewis Gregory

Matt, you saved me from coming up with an evil one of my own...I was thinking along the same lines, but yours is better than what I had in mind. It really fits the 727's historic uses, before the days of RJs and hub-and-spoke routing.

I'm not sure I want to see what your DC-8 checkride is like...it's probably something like landing a fully-loaded DC-8-61 on an aircraft carrier and taking off again...

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 14:18 ET by Thomas Bate

Until I can pass the EVIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! checkride, I will problobly change to the MD-80 Program, because I fly for Virtual Midwest Airlines, and they don't fly 737s. Thet only fly T-Tailed Aircraft. How would I change programs from 737 to the MD-88. That is so I can fly the MD-80 around on Midwest/Delta routes.
Thomas

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 15:37 ET by Lewis Gregory

If you have passed the MD-88 First Officer exam, you've got the rating to fly MD-88s. If you want to switch to the program, contact the MD-88 Chief Pilot and he can switch you, but you still can fly Mad Dogs without actually switching to the program.

And hopefully the email I sent you can help you with the checkride a little. It's not easy.

Lewis Gregory

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on November 14 2004 21:14 ET by Matt Creed

LOL honestly I don't have a pre-made DC-8 ride right now, no one seems to want to fly the grand old bird. The only person I've had to enter the program and require a ride is a good friend who happens to hold real world SE/ME Commercial ratings. When we fly real planes together we love to one-up each other, so I was way meaner to him than I would be to anyone else.

Matt Creed (DVA1041)

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