Originally Posted by
flyguy81
My 3rd also. My regional used Flight Safety for initial training for both aircraft so compared to SWA….it was really really good. Benefit of paying a company that specifically does type rating training vs doing it in house and expecting everyone to know the jet already because historically people showed up with the type already. When I did initial here we had weekends off to go home…no idea why they thought 6 on, 1 off was a great idea.
Originally Posted by
at6d
I finished uograde training last month. It’s my fifth 121 aircraft, but 7th type.
The sim portion of the training was pretty straightforward. The rest of it was stuff that could have been done digitally or cut in half. Some folks got a block of days off between ground and sim, some just got one (like me). Anyway, enjoying a week between sim and UOE so that’s nice.
I should have been more clear in my response, as I agree 100% the schedule side of it sucked. I think in 8 weeks I got to see my family once for 1.5 days. That is unacceptable and the company should be ashamed of that. However, I thought the SIM training was good, the systems training was a waste of time as we learned everything we needed to pass the oral in private sessions with our classmates anyway. I really thought the computer room training was the biggest waste of time as you got to see everything once and then rushed to move on because they had boxes to fill.
Again, this not being my first time through one of these training events, I knew what I needed to study and what I could learn another day, so it was pretty low key for me. If this was my first 121 gig I think I would have had a much harder time with it, so best of luck to the 225 folks.