Indoc and systems at Salt Lake are a month long. After about 2 weeks there in Salt Lake you will receive your id badges. Some guys went home on the weekends some didn't. Once you're done in Salt Lake, depending on your seniority of you and your sim partner in your class which could mean a day break before FTD/Sim or a 1-2 week break (all of which you can stay at home for) you will have FTD in Fresno for 3 days then off to Long Beach for sim for 6 days immediately following FTD. Your first flight at night with your sim partner and an instructor in an empty plane is the next night or so after your sim session in Long Beach. IOE is usually scheduled about a week or so after depending on what domicile you do your IOE from. During that week you go home until you have to show up for your trip. All in all you will have plenty of time to be at home with your family during training if you choose.

A Captain I flew with told me, but I don't know if this is correct, that the "Bro" came from the Brasilia being a SoCal plane so all the dudes in SoCal started calling it the Bro. Don't know if this is completely accurate but it's the best explanation I've heard yet. I'm sure some more senior cats here could pipe in on the real story. Your final day of systems is titled "A day in a life of a Bro FO" so even the instructors call it the Bro. I don't find anything wrong with calling it the Bro but I grew up in San Diego so dude and bro are part of my vocabulary. Later on dudes!