Originally Posted by
Nantonaku
That doesn't sound right at all. They are publishing average training times for upgrades now on vacancies and this is no where near the time they are publishing. I believe new hires only have an extra week of indoc. But that includes IOE too. I would call and ask someone but no way it is 10 weeks until the first day of IOE unless you get super lucky and get 3 weeks off before sim training or something.
Can't say about ground school, but the sim portion for upgrade is much shorter. New hires get 5 GFS events and 11 sim events under both AQP and the old way (old way 9 sims plus checkride and loft) aqp is 8 training sims plus an MV and an LOE plus loft. Upgrade only does 2 GFS and 4 sims plus checkride/loft.