Originally Posted by
dera
On the 175 you can if you get lucky with your timing and spend minimal time on reserve. It's only 83 hours a month block. It's not hard to average that as a lineholder if you want.
We are so overstaffed right now with 175 FOs that a new hire probably wont be able to do that. Reserve times are much longer now than a year ago.
You may have been able to do it, but that is not the norm and sometimes it works, but mostly not for all the reasons listed.
AND if you did do that on the 175 that quickly, you would just be displaced to captain on the 145.