Day 1 started in DEN and several legs later, somewhere around LAX I wasn't hanging onto the tail anymore. The first time briefing the pax (no FA, B1900.. figure it out) was pretty awkward. F'ed up one seemingly very innocent thing in my post-start flow pretty bad that got 'caught' as the power came up for takeoff. But after the awkward first leg things went pretty smoothly. The 2nd leg was mine... we flew the length of the Grand Canyon and then landed on a short & narrow runway since the main rwy at the destination was under construction.

I had a great checkairman who has now gone on to much bigger and better things. I thought his personality was, at first, a bit rough but by the end of the trip I realized what he was doing: Making sure I had a healthy pair to confidently fly the airplane to its limits, succeed and stay legal in a fast moving operation, and not annoy the guy in the left seat. He started me off well and I feel very fortunate to have flown with him.

The nice thing about that operation, at the time, was we still got a few nights of flight training in the airplane in the middle of the night to put it through its paces, fly approaches in the snow, all that kind of fun stuff. IOE was not our first time in the aircraft.

Training and IOE events subsequent to that have not been a big deal, other than the usual amount of work and dedication required.