Induction #59

Awarded our wings on day 1 of induction

I've now been working for easyJet for 2 weeks and I'm really enjoying it. The first week was spent at easyJet's new training academy at Gatwick airport. It's very modern and has an A320 cabin simulator, which is used for smoke drills, door operation and so on - very realistic.

The first day was very adminy. We met a few people from the company who explained various things to us, filled in some paper work, got our air side ID and got measured up for our uniform which was very exciting. The rest of the week was basically an abbreviated cabin crew course, run by cabin crew trainers where we learnt fire and smoke drills, wet drills, safety and emergency procedures, first aid, aviation security, door and slide operation and customer focus. The last day was a CRM day which included being shown round the crew rooms in the north and south terminals at Gatwick and what we'll have to do when we're on the line. It was all very helpful and interesting and so exciting!

Smoke Hood

Fire training

Wet drills @ 6 AM

The second week consisted of 2 days of line training ground school (LTGS), which again was really interesting. Although there wasn't much new information, it was good to review the important things that we're going to be needing on a day to day basis from now on. Then finally, 2 sim sessions; one LOE (Line Orientation Evaluation) and PBN (Performance Based Navigation) and 1 pre-base sim. Both were good fun and a few new things were introduced in the LOE sim, such as RNAV procedures and unreliable airspeed. The rest of it was just a review of what we'd covered in the type rating. Then the pre-base sim was simply practice for base training; 2 hours of circuits in different conditions to get the landing and take off technique fine tuned for the real thing. They were the last sims I'll have to do until my recurrent check in 6 months time.

Final sim

The next step is base training which will be the first time I get my hands on the real thing, I cannot explain how excited I am!

First time in uniform. Worked extremely hard for this cheeky number