6 months of part time instruction, about 1 1/4 year of full time instructing and I got about 1400 hours of dual given out of that which, for me, was invaluable. Hired in the spring of 07, just finished the upgrade. I was hired with 1800TT/50ME. We had a good mix of new hire times in my latest class, a few with 300-600 hrs and a few with 1500+ and 121 experience--they were all pretty good. My sim partner had about 600 hours and he took to the training very well and I am sure will make a great FO for us and one day CA. Maybe we got lucky in our class though.