Until last week I wasn't allowed to use all the equipment at the KLM because I wasn't trained to use it. Because of this, the trainees always had to be accompanied by more experienced employees. Last week I've had 2 training courses, one for using the FMC Rampsnake, and one for connecting the GPU and placing the wheel chocks.
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I've been working at the KLM for over a week now, and it's been good. The last couple of days I was linked to more experienced employees, who looked after me while I was working. I could also ask questions to them, because I can't afford to make any mistakes: Safety first. At seven o'clock my working day begins, waiting in the canteen until they declare the names of the next team.
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Today was the last day of the internship introductions at the KLM, tomorrow I'll start working. Monday and yesterday mainly consisted out of training courses, variating from apron safety to human factors. I also had to make two tests, to make sure I fully understanded the dangers at the airport. Both tests were passed succesfully.
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It's been a busy week. I had 10 exams, some of them were easy, and some of them were pretty hard. For example the navigation exam, which was divided in two parts; general navigation and radio navigation. The general navigation part mainly existed out of flight computer exercises. With a flight computer (Jeppesen) you can calculate the wind direction, TAS, heading, track, etc. It's not difficult to use a flight computer, but remembering all the techniques to calculate the missing values is difficult.
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