First flight was STL-JAX, check-airman was great, met up with him at the end of one of the concourses and he gave me a run through of where the mailbox was, took me down to the crewroom, talked about "bidding" (which made no sense) and a few other technical things, got me the extra paperwork that i should carry around, etc. Then we went up to the gate, saw our plane was delayed, and went to burger king where he bought me some lunch, said welcome to IOE, and off we went.

I didn't feel like i was totally behind the airplane when we left out, but, i wasn't sitting back with my feet on the foot rests, entering radio calls on the FMS and talking on the hand mike, but it wasn't tooooooooo bad. Think he did the first two legs, i did the second landing, and he was showing the oddities of the airplane, proved that he could outclimb a 737 (i still can't manage that one well) and that he could get under their showed "burn" every leg (i still screw the pooch on that one too) but was a learning experience.

It's a great feeling though knowing that you've "arrived" doing what you were trying to do for so long before this. Was exciting, and overwhelming, all at the same time. YOu'll love it when you get here.