Originally Posted by afcraig2010

I started in June. In ground school they ask you which base you want for IOE. Bidding for your actual base will be done probably just after your sim checkride. I did my checkride end of August and was able to bid in September for my October base. IOE continued into October so that didn’t matter (thankfully, because I got Medford when I was still PDX based). I then successfully bid and was awarded PDX in November.