Originally Posted by flapshalfspeed

You must've not been a turbine 121 Captain before if you're asking these questions.



It's like any other initial type rating on any turbine equipment. Standard 142/initial new-to-equipment syllabus: 80 hours of groundschool M-F 8-5. Written test. A few days of procedures training/system integration. Typically a break of 1-4 weeks. 8 sim sessions with lots of downtime. Checkride/LOFT/OBS flights/IOE/Fed ride.



The only differences between the FO course and the CA course are: it's left seat, there's a few extra maneuvers, they grill you more on PIC decisionmaking, and the orals are harder. This is standard 121 training stuff--if you've flown for an airline before you should know all of the above already.



And if you have any doubts that you aren't ready--you aren't. This isn't a small responsibility or easy thing to do (and shouldn't be).