Originally Posted by
trlaketige
Hey Ferd, I am just finishing OE on the 320. As for the foot stomps in the first couple of days, absent. As for the thumb drive "do it yourself" training. There is core curriculum that is required before arriving at class. That's all the company says you need to do. As a result, that's all they pay us for ( 4:15 for the training.). If all you do is the core material, prepare to fail. Also on the thumb drive is supplemental information. That is the real meat of the systems training. Unfortunately, it takes about twice as long as the core material, and you do it for free while flying a full schedule on your current aircraft. So, plan about 30 hours and get ready for that 4:15 pay. The LOD, which is new to North guys, contains all the info that will be on the test. The test starts out about 160 questions, if you begin to miss some it will add more questions. The ati's told me it would max out about 250 questions. Being an over achiever, I missed answered 160. Hope that helps.
Jim
Maybe a grievance should be filed over this? If it takes 30 hours of at-home study to be successful, per our contract, we should get 10 hours of pay. Our contract is bad enough, and now they are making it worse.