Originally Posted by
BluePandaBoy
Interviewed in January. I still have not started sims. I won’t be on the line till mid to late November (hopefully!!!). Upgrade is realistically 3 years total because you don’t fly your first year, you sit on min pay at home the whole time. Make less money your second year than you do the first... wish I would have went somewhere else...
Your interview date doesn’t mean a whole lot... back in Jan PDT had folks waiting 3-5 months to start indoc after interviewing with the company.
Things are far from perfect at PDT, but laying out a vague timeline to imply that new hires will be sitting around for 11 months as a paid employee before they even start sims and won’t see a plane for over a year after indoc is a bit disingenuous.
Upgrade eligibility for new hires is forecast to be 27-30 months using 9-12 months from indoc to OE completion and averaging 55hrs a month until 1000hrs with the company. Actual upgrade times are quicker or slower in some cases depending on background and amount of flight time at PDT.
As far as not interviewing back in January... it wasn’t a secret that there were training delays and folks were taking 4-5 months to get from Indic to ground school back then. Sorry you didn’t do your research on the company beforehand, but I doubt you’d have found another company giving you 30 days off for several months with pay and your probation clock running as a new hire.
If you’re miserable at PDT, no one would fault you for leaving. Definitely recommend finishing OE and completing your probation period first so it doesn’t look like you couldn’t hack it/ resigned in leu of termination. If you decide to stay, make sure to vote no on any TAs that you don’t find acceptable.