Originally Posted by Freeflyfreak

True.

Also people should bear in mind, that your seniority for pay and bidding are not set in stone until you bid equipment, because that seniority is based upon projected training completion date.

You get to bid for initial equipment within the class by date of birth, oldest first.
But you may be faced with the difficult decision of choosing between losing up to 24 seniority numbers to get the base/equip you want, or going to a non preferred base and equipment to keep or gain seniority within the class.

A decision that could possibly come back to haunt you in later years or not depending on how things go.

New Hire lock in is 6 months.