Originally Posted by
gbo2
Is this for new hires waiting for OE as well even before being line qualified? You’re sitting R1 in hopes that a check airman becomes available?
Yes. They are using every available opportunity that comes up to get some IOE done, and it does happen.
There are currently 25 OE-qualified check airmen on the list. They enjoy vacation and the occasional day off like anyone else, and some of them are needed to do LOFTs & annual pro-checks. Many retired captains have been brought in to do initial simulator training in order to free up line check airmen for IOE. There are an additional four or five new line check airmen being trained and waiting to be signed off to lighten the load.
And it's not as if they're hauling everyone into CVG to wait in a hotel. It's only a few at a time. Most are waiting at home.