Originally Posted by bruhaha

Nope the training is like everything else at Spirit. Just enough to check the boxes at the appropriate time.

Everything in new hire training is done in the left seat. Training is done in the left seat, Type rating is done in the left seat. Apart from trying to get the type ride done in 4 sims, the next transition is showing up for IOE with no clue how to do anything as an FO, because the only flying they've done in the right seat is just to watch the other fellow newhire guy do a cat III landing from the right seat, and then they get to do a cat I landing from the right seat for the first time in the entire training program on the checkride sim.

So any right seat time for an newhire showing up for IOE is just the 3-5 minutes they did flying in the right seat for the right seat qual.

The training assumes that the pilot has previous airline/121 experience to draw from so that the transition from training in the left seat as a Captain to line flying in the right seat as an FO is not a big adjustment. But if you have no prior experience, there will be a lot of figuring things out on your own.

Studying for the oral is like studying those old red Gleim books... Every question the examiner can possibly ask you is in the study guide that is given to the newhire. A pilot doesn't need to actually know how to fly or understand anything about the airbus to pass the oral, they just need to be able to regurgitate the answer from the oral study guide from rote memorization.