Indoc

After completing CTP-ATP, I had a day off and then a travel day from DFW to the company training center for INDOC. Once again it was an early flight so there was some time to scout the area for food options and pick up a few things for meals. In addition, Uber Eats and similar were available which I used a few times for dinners during the week.

INDOC is a week of classroom training of all things part 121, company procedures, uniform fitting, etc. There is a lot of information condensed into a week of classroom presentations and at the end there is a 100 question knowledge validation (KV) that you must get at least 80% correct in order to move on to the next step of training. If you do have a bad day with the KV and get less than 80% you'll get a second try after some remediation. You'll want to avoid a second try because it reduces your "second try count" for future validations. There will be other validations that are much more difficult that you may need a retry on and if you use the retries up early in training it may keep you from continuing later on in the training process. 

Throughout the training, we had quizzes to complete after each topic and some computer based training (on the iPad) to complete before the end of the week. Here is a partial list of the topics covered:

Day 1 - Start of INDOC - "culture day". The presentation was all about the company's culture and a get to know everyone in the class day.

Day 2 - Company history, culture, travel benefits. badge photos, issued company iPads, measured for uniforms. Started in on lectures - managing documents, op specs, flight operations manual (FOM), etc.

Day 3 - Derived minimums, definition of marginal weather, PIC/SIC minimums, 17347 exception, duty/flight times, types of reserve,

Day 4 - Flight releases, airworthiness, different types of approaches, aircraft performance

Day 5 - Supplemental operation, emergencies

Day 6,7 - Off and time to study for the KV

Day 8 - Knowledge validation, 100 questions

After the KV, we were told that depending on the aircraft type that you were assigned to, you'd continue on with ground school or go home and wait for a ground school class to get assigned. In my case, it was the later and they scheduled a flight home for me the next day. It was kind of nice to get a break and that break turned out to be about two and half months off with training pay. So not a bad deal as after a couple of weeks in a hotel, I was ready to get home, plus it gave me some time to prepare a little better for a long hotel stint which would occur once ground school started.