Originally Posted by
ctd57
We were told the same thing, about 2 months. I could have held a line after 2 months, but they kept sending TDYs up to DTW. You probably won't get much over 70 hours on reserve. I had a buddy who got 6 hours over a period of I think 2 weeks in MEM. I sat on reserve for 4 months in DTW and I believe we traditionally have the most reserve flying. The most I got over 4 months was 71 hours, the least was 45. How much total time do you have, 9E has changed the upgrade times and I don't know if they have told you guys at the CEC yet. I am sure that they have though. 9E has this new pilot mentor program they are trying to start so that they can upgrade more fos to capt. We are really short on capts
How long ago was your reserve experience? We were given the 2 month figure by a Memphis captain (initials C.H.) this past Monday, who also said that 90+ hrs./mo. would be easy to do. Do you think he was being optimistic? I'll do anything I can to get additional flight time. Picking up open time, asking scheduling to call me first, etc. Anything else you could suggest toward those ends would be greatly appreciated. I've got about 1100TT at the moment.
Regards,
Ken