Training and Workforce
The Fire Hose Chronicles: G550 Initial Type Rating at FlightSafety
AIN senior editor Matt Thurber experiences the challenge and stress of adding a G550 type rating to his pilot certificate.

AIN 2016 Flight Safety Report

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A text from the boss, highly unusual: “Check your email.” Must be something important, and indeed it is. He says I’m going to FlightSafety International’s Long Beach, Calif. learning center for a Gulfstream G550 type rating! I’m speechless, and enormously grateful for a fantastic opportunity. Little did I know what I was getting myself into, but I would soon learn.