Originally Posted by
Duct Mon
Can anyone tell me what the training footprint is like?
Likely will be 7 weeks from day 1 to passing your checkride. In my class everyone got about 6 days off after week 4 (between ground and FTD) and 6 or 7 off after FTD before going into the sim. You'll get 5 FTD sessions, and 9 full sim sessions, plus a checkride, and then a LOFT, so 11 sims total. Definitely enough time to get pretty comfortable with things.
After finishing in the school house, I had 15 days off before starting IOE.
I enjoyed my time in training, as much as an initial can be at least. The instructors and check airmen (both sim and IOE) were truly fantastic people, and I think that most of my classmates have said the same.
Also, they gave us our badges and had us in CASS by about day 2 or 3. I think about half of my class were commuters, and nearly all of them went home on the weekends.