Originally Posted by Da40Pilot

6 months from DOH to IOE is the only thing that is scary about this whole situation. There is no way anyone will get a solid foundation in their training footprint when you're forced to take 4-6 week breaks in between each phase. Instead of going full on and getting on the jet right after, you're stagnating your training and your learning phases - that's not good and creates a bunch of holes in the training and knowledge.

People are spending all this time on the sims going through emergencies and flows and all the intensity that comes with working towards your LOFT and LOE, and then you wait for months to get called for IOE?

How current are you really going to be to get on to the real jet now?

PSA basically took a bite bigger than they could have chewed and I don't even want to imagine how crazy this backlog is going to get. The intensive hiring didn't really start until the beginning of this year, and they still have Nov-Dec hires waiting for IOE?

Popcorn time.