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BOEING 737-500 Type Rating Course

Dear Prospective Pilot Candidate:

Fully approved by the federal government regulatory agency of Canada, AAT offers effective and cost efficient training. Our Type Rating program is specifically designed for experienced pilots who want to further their success in the Aviation Industry. Your homework course will be able to prepare for the endorsement course at home, at your own speed. Each module is imbedded with questions that must be answered in order to proceed to the next module.

A pass mark of 80% is required in order to qualify for acceptance into the Ground school in Vancouver. Ground School Through self-paced computer-based training, we integrate the course material and the free play trainer teaching, followed by the validating systems and procedures. This unique method reduces traditional classroom ground school. Your initial systems course will be delivered by computer based systems trainer. This state of the art program will immerse you into a myriad of multimedia. An instructor will be available through out the course to assist you with any questions you might have.

Here are some of the subjects you will cover.

    Differences training
  • Weight and balance
  • Performance
  • Crew resource management
  • Aircraft General
  • APU
  • Electrical
  • EICAS
  • Walk around
  • Nav IRS
  • Auto flight
  • Flight Instruments, primary, secondary and standby
  • Nav, radios
  • Lighting
  • GPWS
  • Fuel
  • Power plant
  • Fire warnings
  • FMS introduction
  • FMS characteristics
  • Hydraulics
  • Gear
  • FMS preflight
  • Flight Controls Pneumatics
  • Air conditioning
  • Pressurization
  • Communications
  • Ice and Rain
  • Oxygen
  • LNAV FMS
  • FMC to Pegasus and visa versa
Free Play Trainer (FPT)

Your ground school course is taken in conjunction with our computer based training Free Play trainer. This trainer lets you program the computer and do actual flights from the desktop. Qualified airline instructors will also tutor you 8 hours a day to assist you in all aspects of systems and procedures training. This device will sharpen your skills in all aspects of auto flight in normal and non-normal operations. You will program and fly a trip, performing offsets, NDB approaches, ILSs, tracking, Back course approaches and other flight exercises. This trainer can be used as much as is needed without any extra cost. Initial cockpit Full Flight Simulator This level D simulator will walk you through all the QRH items that must be preformed prior to your examination.

Listed below are some of the items covered in the Full Flight Simulator.

  • preparation ( scan flow )
  • IRS alignment
  • APU start and indications
  • EICAS displays
  • FMC / CDU
  • Flight Plan
  • Oxygen mask and test
  • Pre-flight to engine start
  • Discuss normal start
  • Description of EHSI and EADI
  • Review SOP's
  • Initial cockpit preparation ( scan flow ).
  • Flight plan
  • Engine start - after start.
  • Taxi.
  • Take-off, cleanup and after takeoff.
  • DIRECT TO, INTERC LEG TO, discuss LNAV and VNAV.
  • Altitude / speed constraints, intervention
  • Show PROG, LEGS RTE DATA, HOLD, ROUTE 2.
  • ARR / DEP page for approach reference.
  • Normal approach / auto land, references to reverse thrust and auto-brakes.
  • Taxi and park.
  • Shut-down checks.
  • Review SOP's.
  • Preflight through to takeoff.
  • Review briefings.
  • MCP / CDU for takeoff.
  • Review DIR INTC and DIRECT TO
  • Review LNAV / VNAV / HOLD fix.
  • Review ALT / SPD constraints / intervention.
  • Review DEP / ARR.
  • Over shoot with radar vectors, review SOP's.
  • Complete normal approach, landing, after landing.
  • Taxi and park.
  • Review SOP's.
  • Other non normal procedures

Your fully qualified Airline instructor will review each day's lesson, homework, all flows, scans, and work with you on any problem areas you might have. You will accomplish 8 hours as pilot flying and 8 hours as pilot not flying, making up a total of 16 hours. You will have an evaluation in the fourth session, confirming your readiness for the check ride. If the instructor judges that your performance is satisfactory, he will recommend you for the ride.

Sample Check Ride SCENERIO:

1. Abnormal starts
2. Start
3. After start
4. Taxi
5. Takeoff Rwy 26L YVR
6. 2 engine takeoff
7. Climb to 5000 feet
8. Stalls
9. Steep turns
10. Climb to 350
11. Rapid depressurization emergency decent.
12. Cleared to 5000
13. Hold at the VR VOR
14. Cleared for a ILS approach runway 26L VR
15. Truck on the runway
16. Overshoot
17. Fire and fail on the overshoot
18. Cleared for an ILS runway 26L VR
19. Weather at minimums
20. Land
21. Instructor reset
22. Position at the end of Runway 26L
23. Takeoff
24. V1 cut
25. Cleared for a Non precision approach runway 26L
26. Land
27. Uncontrollable APU fire on the roll out
28. evacuation

A designated flight examiner from Transport Canada will monitor this final ride. Upon successful completion, you will receive a type endorsement on an Boeing737-300,400,500. Your instrument rating will be renewed to a class one standard.

Minimum Requirements

Transport Canada has a minimum requirement of 250 hours total time, before you can under go a type rating with us. You also must have a valid pilot's license and a multi-instrument rating, either an Airline Transport Rating or have completed the Transport Canada multi crew exam. World wide acceptance of Your Rating Unlike American licenses, Canadian licenses may be accepted in other ICAO countries.

For students that hold French or British licenses and acquire 500 hours on type, and undertake a successful JAA simulator check ride with an approved TRTO. You will be granted a JAA/JAR type rating on your Euro license. There are an increasing number of countries (Belgium, Denmark, Australia, Luxembourg, Serbia, Jordan and others) that only require a letter from Transport Canada acknowledging that you have met all the requirements in successfully attaining a type rating. With this letter, you do not have to write off ANY Canadian exams, nor attend a medical exam and will have the rating endorsed on your license in your domicile country. FRENCH PILOTS Those pilots who wish to obtain a type rating on a French license may do so with AAT.

Upon successful completion of the Canadian type rating course, here in Canada, you will receive a certified letter from Transport Canada acknowledging that you have successfully completed the course. This letter should be delivered to Mr. Dierri, Director General De L'Aviation Civile Sfact, Bureau Des Licenses, 50, rue Henri Farman 857720, Paris, Cedex 15, France. The French authorities will put the type rating on your French license with a restriction that you are unable to fly in Europe.(you may fly anywhere else in the world with it.) When you have attained 500 hours on type, and attended a check ride simulator session with a JAA authorized TRTO. your type rating will be put on your JAA license, and the restriction will be removed from your French license allowing you to fly in Europe.

Accommodation while on course If you wish to share a room with your partner, there are two hotels close to the training center for $55.00 Canadian per night. ($27.00 Canadian each). Both have free bus transportation to the training center. Another option is a quaint Victorian home 35 minutes from the training center. The rooms are clean and you have kitchen privileges. The cost is $22.00 per room/ per night. Employment with your Endorsement Active has established an agency in Thailand and other Asian countries for the purpose of finding employment for you.

After you have completed the rating, our relationship will continue (without charge) until we find you job. We will obtain a recommendation from your instructor, package your training files, and send out your resume to our agents so that they can actively work to find you a first officers or Captains job on the aircraft you trained for. We also have working relationships with various Airlines. Your resume package will also be sent to them for review. We know that if we find you a job, you will recommend us to others. And it is our policy to financially reward you for any referral.

Time Building

  • From time to time we come across Airlines that will allow you to buy
  • line time. When this accommodation arises, we will promptly forward
  • this information on to you.
Security Check

Unlike the United States, Canada does not require a national security check, or a waiting period. An in-house security check is only required for use of the simulator facilities. This check is done when your application is processed.

Visas Required to train in Canada

Afghanistan
Albania
Algeria
Angola
Argentina
Armenia
Azerbaijan
Bahrain
Bangladesh
Belarus
Belize
Benin
Bhutan
Bolivia
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Brazil
Bulgaria
Burkina
Faso
Burundi
Cambodia
Cameroon
Cape Verde
Central African Rep.
Chad
Chile
China,
People's Rep. of Colombia
Comoros
Congo,
Democratic Rep. of the Congo,
Rep. of the Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Czech Rep.
Djibouti
Dominica Dominican Rep.
Ecuador
Egypt
El Salvador
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Estonia
Ethiopia
Fiji
Gabon
Gambia
Georgia
Ghana
Grenada
Guatemala
Guinea
Guinea-Bissau
Guyana
Haiti
Honduras
Hungary
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel (only Israeli citizens holding valid Israeli "Travel Document in lieu of National Passport")
Ivory Coast
Jamaica
Jordan
Kazakhstan
Kenya
Kiribati
Korea,
North Kuwait
Kyrgyzstan
Laos
Latvia
Lebanon
Lesotho
Liberia
Libya
Lithuania
Macao S.A.R.
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malawi
Malaysia
Maldives
Islands
Mali
Marshall Islands
Mauritania
Mauritius
Micronesia, Fed. States
Moldova
Mongolia
Morocco Mozambique
Myanmar (Burma)
Nauru
Népal
Nicaragua
Niger
Nigeria
Oman
Pakistan
Palau
Palestinian Authority
Panama
Paraguay
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Qatar
Romania
Russia
Rwanda
Sao
Tomé e Principe
Saudi Arabia,
Kingdom of Senegal
Serbia-Montenegro
Seychelles
Sierra Leone
Slovak Rep.
Somalia
South Africa
Sri Lanka
Sudan
Surinam
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Tanzania
Thailand
Togo
Tonga
Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia
Turkey
Turkmenistan
Tuvalu
Uganda
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
Uruguay
Uzbekistan
Vanuatu
Venezuela
Vietnam
Yemen
Zambia
Zimbabwe
 

Upon receipt of your refundable deposit of $3000.00 U.S.D. we will issue an acceptance letter to the Canadian High Commission in your country. If you are rejected from entry into Canada, we will refund the full amount with interest.

VISITOR VISA EXEMPTIONS

Many people do not require a visa to visit Canada. These include: citizens of Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Botswana, Brunei, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel (National Passport holders only), Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Monaco, Namibia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Republic of Korea, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, San Marino, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Spain, Swaziland, Sweden, Slovenia, Switzerland, United States, and Western Samoa; persons lawfully admitted to the United States for permanent residence who are in possession of their alien registration card (Green card) or can provide other evidence of permanent residence. British citizens and British Overseas Citizens who are re-admissible to the United Kingdom; citizens of British dependent territories who derive their citizenship through birth, descent, registration or naturalization in one of the British dependent territories of Anguilla, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, St. Helena or the Turks and Caicos Islands; persons holding a valid and subsisting Special Administrative Region passport issued by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China;

Costs

Total amount: $17,800.00 U.S.
This includes unlimited Internet training, Ground school, Procedures training and unlimited Free Play Trainer training. Flight Training Device is 4 hours PF and 4 hours PNF. Full flight simulator (8 hours PF and 8 hours PNF). (see note) and instructor costs.

Getting Started

The manuals you will receive when we receive your deposit are listed as follows:
Boeing 737 Manuals

  • QRH hand book

  • Volume One of the flight Operations Manual

  • Volume Two of the flight operations Manual

  • Volume Three of the flight operations Manual

  • Quick lists

  • Full size mockups

  • Ready reference handbook

  • Home work workbook

  • Internet work book questions

  • Internet Access code

     

If you need to apply for a Visa, we recommend that you send us your refundable deposit of $3000.00 U.S.D. as soon as possible. Once your visa is granted we will courier you your manuals, memorization sheets, QRH, and Quick lists and internet training access. Upon acceptance of the material, your deposit becomes non-refundable.

If you do not need a visa, we require a non-refundable deposit of $3000.00 in order to ship you the material, give you internet access and put you in the queue for the course. This amount will be deducted from the total cost of the course. It is recommended that you obtain the material from us at least1 month before undertaking the course as completion of your homework workup is mandatory.

If you have any further questions, please call me on my direct line at 1-604-786-3835

or .

Yours truly,

W.K.R. (Walt) Lazaruk
Director AAT Inc.

Updated July 15,2006