I was just there a week ago to interview. Hiring into pool, in fact I got the "pool" letter three days later. HR says the "pool is very shallow." Do to recent hiring the pool was pretty much depleted. Some classes are on the horizon, but she did not give any specifics about when, certificate, or equipment.

Written was the same as you find on the gouge sites. Still looks like 3 versions. Very straight forward. With 121 prop experience you will find it easy...with jet experience (we get dumbed down by the automation!) you may have to think a bit about some of the questions that we are used to the automation in the airplane doing for us. Some people say you need a calculator. ALL of the questions can be answered by using rules of thumb. Mental Math for Pilots by Ronald D. McElroy (Cage Consulting) is a perfect "prep" for the formulae you will find extremely useful. What I am getting at is you don't need to pull out 2*pi*r to find the distance along an arc between radials. Use the mental formulas you would use in the cockpit. Even for the descent. 3 to 1 is all you need. Forget about converting groundspeed to miles per minute and multiplying etc. Just use the 3 to 1 plan that we are all familiar with, and the answer is there.

In my group, everyone was previous 121. 1 guy that hadn't flown in quite a while had to do the sim and that was it.

Upgrade as of last week was reported to be 19-22 months. 15k/2-yr training contract pro-rated. $125/wk for meals in training, no pay during training, hotel is double occupancy. 75-hr guarantee, $22.06 year one, $29.68 year two, $1.55 per diem.