Originally Posted by fastforward

You should be able to jumpseat by the end of the first week of ground school. The classroom schedule is Monday-Friday, 8-5 although sometimes you’ll get a 3 day weekend if there’s a holiday that week.

From what I’ve heard from the new FOs, people have been getting anywhere from 3-7 days between the end of ground school and the start of sims. Also roughly the same amount of time between their checkride and IOE.