Page 24 - Jan22T

From the Flight Deck
by Kevin R. Dingman
Retire Me Not – Part Deux
Simulator training is part of every professional pilot’s life.
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit.
Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’”
– Muhammad Ali
The Duke is still in the shop, and my non-current status has not sat well with me. About three years ago, a local family-owned Part 135 outfit that leases me a hangar suggested I talk with them about their charter operation – “Come see us after you retire,” they said. This past summer, one of my 737 FOs told me he had worked for the same company and
22 • TWIN & TURBINE / January 2022
said they were good people. And David Miller’s tales of his Citation(s) in T&T and my friend Dr. Karl’s accounts of bizjet flying all helped me to act on their offer. Flying a Citation might be fun. And since I’d be doing it just for fun, getting the type rating would be little or no stress. Wouldn’t that be nice after 31 years of you-bet-your-job Part 121 training?
Business Decision Conundrum
FlightSafety’s CE-650 ground school in San Antonio seemed fine, or so I thought. After all, 100 percent on the written is good. The six of us later discovered as we transitioned to the simulator portion of the course, how- ever, that a couple of syllabus items