Originally Posted by
amiskwia
Hello!!! I wanted to ask if someone could please describe training to me a bit. I'm still waiting for the review board to go over my stuff, but I've been told that I would start class on January 2nd or 16th. Do the 6 and a half weeks for training include the simulators? Or is it just ground school? Also I imagine the group is broken up into people that go to the different aircrafts, right? I've read Eagle gives you hotel accommodations but it's two people per room. How does that work out? If it's get just a standard hotel room, I can see that being a pain.
And what happens after training? I mean, once you pass the check ride you're expected to immediately go to your assigned base and find yourself an apartment or whatever and start flying?
Thanks for the help!
Training is 5 1/2 weeks plus another 2 weeks of simulator. So about 7 1/2 weeks total. The first week is indoc training and everybody goes through that together except for the ATR guys.
After the 1st week you are seperated by aircraft. I didn't stay in the hotel, but if I remember correctly you have a roomate for the first week only, then you get your own room.
After you pass your checkride in the sim you have one more sim session called LOFT. It's not a pass/fail situation, but you fly a complete round-trip as if it were real life. It is typically JFK-DCA-JFK so you get practice shooting the river visual into DCA.
After LOFT you are scheduled IOE. While in IOE you are still attached to the training department, so while they will try to schedule you flights out of your base it could technically be out of any base. While on IOE the company is responsible for putting you up in hotels in between trips if you get sent outside of where you live.
Once IOE is over (and you pass hopefully) you are given 3 move days, 1 paid and 2 unpaid. Then you are at the mercy of crew scheduling. If you don't live in base it is now your responsibility to get there on your reserve days.
Thats about it....