Originally Posted by
Cruz5350
A lot of people struggle with the speed of the jet and 121 ops combined. I've heard from others that are coming in as career changers or hobbyists that they can't keep up with the automation on the 175. Whatever it is you only hear the bad.... I've never heard an a LCA say, O man this one student was so good I could have signed him off after one flight. The long IOE gets regurgitated amongst pilots to push an agenda of making themselves feel better since they did it in a normal amount of hours.
This right here.
SKW typically assigns approximately 35 hrs IOE as standard. It used to be, if you weren't signed off by 50 hours, you were shown the door. However almost everyone in my class was done within 35 hours and I think one guy had maybe an extra 5 hours.
I do know of one pilot, not in my class, who was signed off after more than 100 hours IOE. But stories like that are very much the anomaly.