Originally Posted by
bitwiser
I'm an ORD 145 FO that's been with the company a little over a year. Flying time on reserve seems to vary quite a bit, but in general the 145 is heavily overstaffed on the FO side. There was a three month stretch while I was on reserve that I flew a TOTAL of two hours, and it was not for lack of trying. As a lineholder it's obviously much better, 70-75 hrs/month.
Did you have to go to the sim for landing currency, or was the timing such that you didn’t? At what point does the company assign flying or schedule you for a sim?