Originally Posted by
pitchattitude
In the most recent past, they have moved away from actual DECs and made everyone go through as an FO and then do upgrade. Not necessarily a bad thing as it gives you time to figure out the company and since you have the hours still get the captain pay anyway and with only the 175, you won’t have to worry about a plane swap and the upgrade will be a shorter “qualified” upgrade.
THANKS for this!
As recently as last month, when I asked about getting at least a couple of months/a hundred hours or so in the right seat (as a potential DEC with the requisite number of 121 hours, but no Pax experience) the emphatic (but polite) answer from both PSA as well as Envoy was (my paraphrasing): "You'll be hired as a CA, trained as a CA, and then we'll get you straight into the left seat to start flying the line as a CA."
And when I drilled down on that, it was explained that "regular" DECs would get 50 hours of IOE... but those DECs that
hadn't logged 121 time in the past 5 years would have the opportunity to fly 300 hours in the right seat before moving to the left.
I asked if either WO would make an exception to the "straight into the left seat" paradigm... neither would.
Seems like (now) they might... so many thanks again for the update!