Quote: (Originally Posted by
wilbo)
congratulations..
so where are the bits about you not doing so well and how Gideon task loaded you etc..
sounds like it was a breeze from what you've written (I know thats not the case)
The class wasn't a breeze and I didn't mean for me report to come off that way.
Skills wise I'd say most of it comes back to the fundamentals. The addition of an additional bottle and the bottle movement drill is new but not so difficult in the grand scheme of things. What was more difficult was the usual keeping situationally aware, keeping the team together, communicating, etc.
The scenarios were challenging as well. The third bottle provides additional team resources that we were not used to (example: if you go OOG on the stage, you don't need to go to your buddy for gas. Going to your backup reg is the easiest solution). We had lots of valve failures, gas sharing, lost masks, etc.
I'd say the class was challenging enough that we learned important lessons. But not so challenging that we had to struggle through it.