living the dream

I received a Flight Safety pre study guide for the Sovereign course a week before the class is supposed to start. It looks like just a way to get a head start on some limits and memory items.  The procedures and limits all look to be very straight forward, unfortunately there’s nothing in there about the avionics which I think may be the most challenging part of the new plane.  The Honeywell instrumentation and FMS will be fun to learn and hopefully since I have no experience in this type of setup I’ll be able to come in with a clean slate and not have to unlearn any old habits.

The aircraft is supposed to arrive on Friday so I may get a look at it before taking off for Wichita on Saturday…

Soon to come, 3 week initial training blog on a Citation 680 Sovereign.  I’ll fill in some of the background details soon and hopefully get this rolling once I hit the deck in Wichita.

This should be interesting since I have no jet, FMS, glass cockpit, or even very little airplane sans FE experience.  But I’m stoked to finally get to control the pressurization and oil temperature myself (or I suppose the plane automatically does that for you these days)…