Originally Posted by
fdx727pilot
"I understand how the training letter works." Obviously not. The last class of new hires, from April, is still in training. Their class has just been cleared from the training letter. Guys whose classes have already started drop off the training letters all the time, on all the various airframes.
As for no training til July, as the 727 is a pretty low priority nowadays, (almost as many reserve lines as regular lines,) they aren't in a rush to train new front seaters. As for second officers, none of the upcoming classes is going to the backseat, so no SO training unless a guy turning 65 wants to stay. Doesn't seem like a big mystery to me.
Wow, again here we go with the semantics. Ok, the names were cleared from the training letter, not removed.
Subtlety is obviously lost on the internet. I was trying to suggest to those looking for info on the new hire classes that perhaps those who are hired here in the next couple of months would likely be training in a different seat than the 727 back seat.
You evidently agree, you just had a hard time saying it without the snipe.
Thanks for the help.