Yep just got done talking to the head of training. According to him there is no sick, emergency,personal, any type of leave, contrary to what we were told in the beginning. There also is no possibility of waiting for the Nov class. Infact, there was a guy waiting before me who had two ATR's and they sent him packing. I had to do a lot of convincing just to be aloud to stay.

I have to be back in the sim at 2am and pass. I don't know how I am going to do it. It is right in between a really long time to kill and too short of a time to sleep. At least I couldn't right now with the amount of caffeine I needed to stay awake for the 4pm meeting after this morning's 2am sim session.

I appreciate all the advice. It looks like once you agree to train you are commited to finishing and passing. This is definately not what I signed up for. Thank g-d for unions, otherwise I don't know how this career would exist.

Advice for those thinking of jumping on the wonderful regional bandwagon, be careful and make sure you are really ready physically, mentally, financially, etc...

Very sad, but I am starting to question if this is the right career for me anymore.