Originally Posted by
widebodyjunkie
How long is training as a new employee till the time you go on reserve?
About two months
Originally Posted by
widebodyjunkie
And where and how often does post training work after you're hired?
Historically it was one 4 hour sim session every six months (CA) or annually (FO)...basically just a repeat checkride. Pilots would devote 1-4 weeks to prepare for this.
It is shifting to two-day of various sim and ground evolutions. This is more training oriented and less checkride oriented (you can still fail)Eventually you can expect that format to also go to every nine months for both CA and FO.
You also do two days (16 hours) of ground training each year...classroom and/or CBT.
Originally Posted by
widebodyjunkie
If you have to pass check-rides based on new FAA or airline req. where does that usually happen and how often?
They normally include all of that sort of stuff into the regular sim schedule...it would be way too hard and expensive to bring 3000 pilots in for a special event.