Originally Posted by
tiredcfi
Agreed. Except the IOE program for a new SIC is minimal at best.
^^This
And it's worse for upgrading PICs. Minimal training on things like flight planning, performance, and airworthiness. It's a joke to basically throw someone in the left seat to figure that stuff out on their own with no dispatch office or anything like that to back them up. If you don't come into it with a solid background, good luck to you.