Originally Posted by
ugleeual
A 737 PI told me last week that they can train approximately 55 crews per month... 320s around 37 per month. This is with the sim running 5 training periods and 1 period for maintenance and disinfectant cleaning. This is full qualification courses lasting almost 5 weeks... many pilots only need a short course that could be as quick as a couple days and some taking a couple weeks. Guess is that they training center will target pilots needing the short courses first and then start the full courses in July/August.
To keep it simple, I just considered "max" throughput on the sims and didn't bother with total time spent at TK (academics or FTDs). I have to wonder if the 55 per month total is with or without concurrent training going on (for example, cycling 2000 737 crews through two simulator periods every nine months would take up about 15 out of 45 sim periods per day). Lots of folks have had CQ events cancelled already so I wonder if 55 is an accurate max when the decks have been mostly cleared of CQ events. The lower the number the better though...