Originally Posted by
CRJail
So you are saying that flying right seat on one airplane then upgrading on another airplane is a recipe for disaster. I disagree with you as this is common practice in every airline that I know off. You can do it in every mainline, and they do it in every regional. American MD80 FO can upgrade to the 777, RAH Q400 FO can upgrade to the 145.
You can open a different thread to discuss the issue, it has nothing to do with PSA.
I'm not necessarily saying that, though anyone will admit that their first CA experience is rough had you never been in the rights eat of said aircraft.
Generally, the people plane hopping at a major have 10s of thousands of hours. At PSA, many Eaglets I had in my right seat, went over there with just barely 1000 hrs 121. That is pretty rough to move to a new airline, new SOPs, new airplane, and only get a hundred hours before going to upgrade.
I saw issues at Eagle with 10 year FOs going from jet FO to ATR CA. We almost had a few issues and the CAs admitted the learning curve was huge.
Anyway, I think it absolutely has to do with PSA and that is why I brought it up; it just crossed my mind as a big issue when Oagey brought up upgrade times. Sounds like you have plenty of Endeavor CRJ guys to help mediate the crossing though.