Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I hadn't thought about it that way but Yeah I think you're right.
My first regional interview was two days, with a sim check in a heavy four engine jet (me being a light twin MEI), and an astronaut physical on day two.
I remember that very well. A few years later I was in the schoolhouse and a guy walked in holding a 707 yoke—he said “they were disassembling the KC-135 sim so I asked them for it and they gave it to me.”