Originally Posted by
DAL757
A little thread drift here but, new hire IOE wait is now 8 weeks past type ride for my class. We haven't heard a word!! For a new guy who's excited to start a new career it's a little dis-heartening to sit in a pool for 4 -6 months waiting for indoc, and then wait for training, and then wait 8 weeks after the type for IOE, and never hear a word for your employer. Many poolies waiting for a class date are leaving for companies that are giving them training dates and I know we are losing good guys to competitors. I know that I am whining, but a little communication goes A LONG WAY!!
They won't let us leave passengers in the dark during a holding pattern, shouldn't our employees be treated the same way?
I'd say enjoy it while you can. Use that time to re-study the plane and flows etc and spend time with your family and travel for free. Your situation is way better than the alternative: exactly one week off to cram down a memory stick to type rating exam expectations, then 24 hours off between phases/events, sometimes not even commutable on one or either end.
I agree they could usually do a better job of communicating things like that, especially for the poolies, but often they don't know as much as you think they do/should know either. When they're this busy they spend most of their time putting out fires and filling holes in the schedule as they pop up. They usually don't know very much either, as the whole airline is run completely by marketing's split second binge and purge decision making for its million fleet type armada.
I do empathize with you about the "training pay" issue though. I would strongly advocate spending "negotiating capital" on new pilots going to line pay after their checkride instead of after OE because its the right thing to do, and by definition only happens when we're hiring anyway so its not like they can't afford it.
But anyway, enjoy the calm before the storm. Even the money is a drop in the ocean over the length of a career. You'll hit the ground running soon enough, and you may or may not ever get a break like this again in your career.