[quote=tflyer70;349499]Take your time...HAVE FUN...be respectful of all the work groups (FA's, ground support, gate agents, etc...)

I finished IOE yesterday. IMHO the order of difficulty for an FO IOE is:
#1. Situational awareness at DTW/dealing with the taxi instructions. The rapid fire instructions seem to not quite match up to what you expect, and it's very unnerving. A great LCA -- like Joe McCauley is -- understands and is ready to take up the slack. Between the first and second segments of my IOE, I learned the DTW taxi diagram from memory and most of the frequencies. I cannot recommend enough that you spend some of your pre-IOE free time to do the same for your base -- but you'll still struggle.
#2. Visual approaches. Sim tng is all about flying instrument approaches to mininums, but my IOE included only ONE ILS, and a whole bunch of visual approaches. Sadly, there is very, very little you can do to get ready to perform good visual approaches. I can only recommend absorbing every word your LCA tells you about how to configure, asking every possible question that occurs to you, and trying to mimic the way he flies an approach in every detail.
The last thing I can say is, RELAX. I am not a natural relaxer, instead constantly working on not making the same mistake twice. Understand and accept the fact that you will make the same mistakes over and over again, and don't let it get to you. If you thought training was drinking from a firehose, then IOE is drinking from two firehoses at the same time -- while flying an airplane.
One last caution, never, ever leave the plane without carrying your cellphone, and have your LCA's cell number stored.