After my return from Portugal I had to wait a few weeks before I could continue my study. That month the new season at the sail academy started and I could pick up my usual summer job as an instructor for the time being. At the end of May I returned to the south of our country for an excursion to Eurocontrol, a 2 day application course and the week there after MCC started.

MCC (Multi Crew Coordination), the last part of the NLS syllabus encloses 7 weeks of training at Maastricht and Brussels. Almost every airline nowadays requires a candidate to have followed such a course. It can be seen as a transition course from single pilot general aviation aircraft to multipilot airliners. The main goal is to work as a crew. A Pilot Flying (PF) and a Pilot Not Flying (PNF). In the new Boeing procedures it's called Pilot Monitoring (PM). Our school is authorized to use a frozen copy of the KLM procedures. So we used their AOM and SOP's

The first 2 weeks are CBT (Computer Based Training). Since we use the Boeing 737-300 for the MCC we had to learn all aircraft systems. The 3th week we spent in the CPT (Cockpit Procedure Trainer) to learn how to operate those systems and procedures. The 4th week we spend on operating the FMS (flight Management System). The week there after we had the last 3 CPT sessions and a groundschool exam on Friday. Since our groundschool is so extensive we know about 90% you should know for a typerating 737. All 4 of us passed the exam. My score was 94% well above the required minimum of 75%. It made the way free for 6 sessions on the Full Flightsimulator at Brussels.

In the books again...a lot of new stuff to learn.

Boeing 737-300 pneumatic system.

Graham and Leon together crew 176, Sebastiaan and myself are crew 177. CPT briefing room.

schematic of call outs and actions during a manual approach and manual landing.

CPT (cockpit procedure trainer) Boeing 737 classic