Originally Posted by
SGS233
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!
No offense, but envoy has had some pretty rough DEC’s in the past so it’s understandable why there is a 300 hour wait to slide you over when you’ve never flown 121 passenger flights. Last thing they want is a 175 descending into GJT at a high rate again. RW and RN probably are under scrutiny still from past issues.