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Old 05-10-2017, 04:01 PM
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Being a soon to be new hire, I have questions that I did not ask in the interview, perhaps those with time on property can answer them for many of us.

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Uniforms how are they handled? Who pays for them?
Where are we fitted?
What do we need to provide before IOE?

Parking: how does that work for commuters? Does AW provide parking passes at either domicile airport? Or home airport from where they commute from?

Buddy passes? I have read in the older forums that AW did not have them,

What are pilots using for headsets in the CRJ,
I saw very little discussion on that thread.

Does AW have a lot of memory items? Limitations and emergency procedures?

The training? Do you learn to build the airplane or is it more of a need to know basis? Every company is different.

Limitations? Green arc
or hard numbers need to be learned and memorized?

Food options while in Appleton $$$?

What do you suggest for eating?

How far away are places to purchase personal items?
Laundry facilities?

Can you enlighten us on what to expect during training?

Training materials are they in an electronic format or books?
Do we need to bring an extra suitcase to bring them home?

What attire is expected for ground school?

Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks.

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The uniform allowance is $260/year. That starts after your first year. You do have the option of using payroll deduction to pay for your first uniform.

A representative from M&H (IIRC) comes in at the end of Indoc to do your measurements.

"What do we need to provide before IOE?" I am not sure what you mean.

For parking, the company provides parking at your domicile airport. If you are a commuter, they will reimburse you up to the cost of parking in domicile.

We do not have buddy passes with American, but I imagine that we will have them when we fly for United.

I see a lot of Telex 850s, and Clarity Alofts.

There is a considerable amount of memory items and limitations. It's not a ridiculous amount, but probably more than average.

They are working towards teaching on a need-to-know basis. From what I've been told by FOs that left for other regionals before the United announcement, our training is superior.

Limitations have a lot of hard numbers, but not too difficult to memorize.

Appleton is awesome! Tons of food around, including a very good breakfast at the Radisson. You will have a lot of fun.

There is a local superstore down the road, the hotel van can take you. The laundromat is also about a 10-15 minute walk, but the van can take you.

2 weeks of ATP-CTP (if needed).
1 week of ground school, a few days in Charlotte, 10 hours of sim, fly back, and complete the ATP written on the second Friday.
2 weeks of indoc with a quiz at the end of each week (multiple-choice).
2 weeks of systems, 1 or 2 quizzes (multiple-choice).
Afterwards, you go to MKE for Cockpit Procedures Training (one week), which is done in the actual aircraft.
After that, you go to CLT or CVG to complete your sim training. You are allotted 10-15 sim sessions, but many are getting more. If you have a good attitude and show progress, you will have no problem getting as many sim sessions as you need.
Complete your checkride, then start IOE shortly afterwards! I believe that you are required to fly at least 25 hours to be signed off, so that amounts to 2 trips minimum.

Let me know if you have any other questions!
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Old 05-10-2017, 06:29 PM
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The uniform allowance is $260/year. That starts after your first year. You do have the option of using payroll deduction to pay for your first uniform.

A representative from M&H (IIRC) comes in at the end of Indoc to do your measurements.

"What do we need to provide before IOE?" I am not sure what you mean.

For parking, the company provides parking at your domicile airport. If you are a commuter, they will reimburse you up to the cost of parking in domicile.

We do not have buddy passes with American, but I imagine that we will have them when we fly for United.

I see a lot of Telex 850s, and Clarity Alofts.

There is a considerable amount of memory items and limitations. It's not a ridiculous amount, but probably more than average.

They are working towards teaching on a need-to-know basis. From what I've been told by FOs that left for other regionals before the United announcement, our training is superior.

Limitations have a lot of hard numbers, but not too difficult to memorize.

Appleton is awesome! Tons of food around, including a very good breakfast at the Radisson. You will have a lot of fun.

There is a local superstore down the road, the hotel van can take you. The laundromat is also about a 10-15 minute walk, but the van can take you.

2 weeks of ATP-CTP (if needed).
1 week of ground school, a few days in Charlotte, 10 hours of sim, fly back, and complete the ATP written on the second Friday.
2 weeks of indoc with a quiz at the end of each week (multiple-choice).
2 weeks of systems, 1 or 2 quizzes (multiple-choice).
Afterwards, you go to MKE for Cockpit Procedures Training (one week), which is done in the actual aircraft.
After that, you go to CLT or CVG to complete your sim training. You are allotted 10-15 sim sessions, but many are getting more. If you have a good attitude and show progress, you will have no problem getting as many sim sessions as you need.
Complete your checkride, then start IOE shortly afterwards! I believe that you are required to fly at least 25 hours to be signed off, so that amounts to 2 trips minimum.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Glad you took care of this one haha, ive been trying to respond to most of the lengthy inquiries of people who seem to legitimately interested in AWAC.

As far as the IOE question, I'll take a shot at it. You just show up really, youll get an email and if I remember correctly i also got a phone call prior to each trip advising me of my IOE trips. I also got calls from both my LCA's the day prior to the start of my trips. Youll get a packet of things youll go over on your trips with your checkairmen and you just bring it with you on each trip until you finish. Did mine in 2 trips and I'm no way gods gift to aviation
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Thank you for great info and OP for good questions
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Wow thanks all of you for the feed back and taking time for the details.
I am sure many others will want to know the answers to the same questions,

What do we need to provide before IOE? I should have been more specific.
I am guessing the company provides the brite work wings, emblems for hats
I guess we need to procure our own shirts. What about shoulder applets
Silver? Pewter?

What about training materials? Books? Or electronic media i.e. Thumb drive?


As for the ATP I knocked that one out 30 years ago with my first type rating.
Hence Graybird.

However i am sure some will appreciate the details on on the ATP process.

Again thanks
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Wow thanks all of you for the feed back and taking time for the details.
I am sure many others will want to know the answers to the same questions,

What do we need to provide before IOE? I should have been more specific.
I am guessing the company provides the brite work wings, emblems for hats
I guess we need to procure our own shirts. What about shoulder applets
Silver? Pewter?

What about training materials? Books? Or electronic media i.e. Thumb drive?


As for the ATP I knocked that one out 30 years ago with my first type rating.
Hence Graybird.

However i am sure some will appreciate the details on on the ATP process.

Again thanks
You'll get to order epaulettes and shirts with the rest of your uniform items. I'm not a fan of the shirts they let you order and went with A Cut Above. Great quality and somewhat fitted as opposed to the baggy, sloppy shirts they offered. Wings will be provided at some point during sims.

Training materials/books are all on a company issued iPad you'll receive during Indoc. You can use your own if it meets company specs and they'll pay you a certain amount. They also gave us a thumb drive will useful items such as checklist videos, walk around guide, publications, etc.
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Great thanks for the input! What iPad do they issue?
I have an IPad Pro 9.7 with 128 gig I am not sure if I want to beat it up with everyday rigors.
Should I bring a laptop (for thumb drive) or is everything I need loaded on the company iPad?

What attire is expected during training? Nice looking pressed jeans collared shirt? Acceptable?
Dress slacks? For check ride days I would guess.
I know it sounds like a silly question however I have seen pilots show up for training at corporate training centers where they asked the client to come back in dress slacks and dress shirt.

You never know what to expect.
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Great thanks for the input! What iPad do they issue?
I have an IPad Pro 9.7 with 128 gig I am not sure if I want to beat it up with everyday rigors.
Should I bring a laptop (for thumb drive) or is everything I need loaded on the company iPad?

What attire is expected during training? Nice looking pressed jeans collared shirt? Acceptable?
Dress slacks? For check ride days I would guess.
I know it sounds like a silly question however I have seen pilots show up for training at corporate training centers where they asked the client to come back in dress slacks and dress shirt.

You never know what to expect.
Your ipad will work fine but what I've seen is a lot of the pilots take the company ipad and use it strictly for work related stuff/documents and still bring their own tablet for personal use so thats what I do. As far as training attire, slacks and a polo or button up shirt, nobody wore jeans. I brought my laptop to training but all the same videos are on the company website, i just found it easier to make my own study guides and watch the videos on my laptop but its really just personal preference. I also have an electronic logbook so I brought my laptop in on the paperwork days just in case corrections needed to be made. Youll get an email of everything youll need to bring about 2 weeks before class.
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Great Info!!

Two more questions:

What is the commuter's policy?

Will AW interview a candidate with 1400TT and if yes,how long will you have to complete the remaining 100?
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Great Info!!

Two more questions:

What is the commuter's policy?

Will AW interview a candidate with 1400TT and if yes,how long will you have to complete the remaining 100?
Yeah theyll definitely interview you. One of the guys in my class got hired with less than 500 hours and they gave him a year to get to 1000 (he met the R-ATP mins).

The commuter policy is pretty straight forward. You have to give yourself 2 options. Your first option has to get you to domicile 2 hours before check-in, your second option if you couldnt get on the first must get you in domicile 30 mins prior to your check-in time for your trip. If you get bumped from your first and call you can always ask scheduling to positive space you for your 2nd or even 3rd attempt, its a hit or a miss though.
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