Yeah, this was definitely not a spoon feed type of place. The bus is just as bad. The instructor was not very knowledgeable and would argue if you pointed out his mistake. Then a large portion of the oral was spent on things not covered in class but thankfully we had some gouge from previous guys. The completely inconsistent and contradictory manuals make it a real fun experience also.

The training is a small preview of the rest of the operation. Run as lean as possible then go just below that. There will be no breaks from day 1 to completing systems. That's when the fun begins of daily schedule changes happen for SITS and sims. Showing up to events with no instructors or double booking students. And of course it's a domino effect and once you miss a scheduled event due to one of these wonderful reasons you're out of the loop and sent to the back of the line and off for a week. Nothing like having 7 days off between second to last and last sim or last sim and type ride. Seriously. This is what happens. It was getting better when our class was finishing up but doesn't sound like much has changed.

It only gets slightly better on the line if everything goes perfectly. Once you start to fall behind on the time line in the morning you will likely be the last to push because the contract ground crew only cares about on time performance and they only have enough people to work one or two aircraft. So if you are delayed to do whatever, what could possibly only be a 5 minute delay turns into 30 minutes while you watch everyone else push. Now your event you were planning on going to that afternoon/evening (because you're home everynight (rolling eyes emoji)) is in jeopardy because you were also late leaving your outstation because when you got there 30 minutes late the one gate in BLV or HTS was taken so now you have to wait for a gate. So you get home 1-1.5 hours late, missed your event but hey, I'm home tonight. Sorry, got a bit off track but that is just a taste of life here. And that's on our reliable fleet. Rant over.