Originally Posted by broncoflyer8912

All 12 ATRs were flying last summer, they started removing 2-3 from service each month until December.

As an ATR pilot who went through training again (minus Basic Indoc) to get transitioned to the CRJ, they have completely refined the process thanks to Jim from the ATR training department taking over the CRJ training department.

Training now consists of two weeks of system lectures which are also combined with FMS training at the end of the day. Also instead of paper tigers, they have replaced that with Graphical Flight Simulator training which is you sitting in front of a mock cockpit that has a big computer screen where all the panels are, and now when you push the button it does something, and you can actually see what is happening when you are doing you flow, etc. You continue with a week of GenOps while also finishing off you GFS training. You also don't get to move on to SIM training until they know you have all your flows down, and have thorough systems knowledge. After that is your typical sim training. The whole process took a month and a half.