Training footprint
 

Could someone post the current training footprint for a new hire at Allegiant? How much time at each phase/location, etc. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

I would say plan 4-6 weeks of ground and sim. If OE isnt backed up that usually takes a week and a half.

Mine was exactly 10 weeks from day 1 of ground to last day of IOE, including about 4 weeks break in between.

That doesn’t sound too bad at all. How long is ground school and how long are sims? In Vegas or orlando?

My info is dated so it might have been compressed but I remember ground school being about 3 weeks. After that you go into about 3 weeks of SITs and flight sims. All the training was done in Vegas as I believe they are using Orlando as a recurrent training hub.

It has been a few years, but for my class, it was 2 weeks of Company Indoc, 3 weeks of systems ground, 10 SIT Sessions, then type oral, 10 sim sessions, then Check ride and LOFT. Indoc and ground were Monday-Friday with weekends off. With sim schedule, holidays and a week wait for OE, it took 3 months from day 1 through OE.




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3 weeks of ground instruction, which is practically worthless. Highly recommend paying for one of the ground instruction programs and study that. There are a few Quizlet question banks done up specifically from the Allegiant Oral study guide. One of the quotes from day one...."Airmanship is not required in an AB". SIT training and SIM training are actually pretty good, except for the overloading of nonsense required on each day's syllabus (FAA directed, it seems). You will NOT be taught the checkride, that being said, I found the device training to be better than expected, given the ridiculousness of the ground training.

I was told Allegiant doesn't provide any study material prior to class. Is there a way to at least get limitations and memory items? As it was explained to me, they don't give out any study materials because there is ample time to learn everything you need from day one to finish.

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The Airbus doesn't have many limitations to memorize per se, and the memory items can be memorized in a lazy afternoon. You really have plenty of time to learn everything in ground school. It's an easy airplane.

Training
 

We were told in the interview that the training will have you prepared for both the oral and check ride if you put for the effort. Was also told to be careful about studying any material on the Internet prior to class. My pervious airline (a regional) had material for us to study and memorize prior to showing up to class (even with this prior study I still felt like drinking from a fire hose). My question being will someone with prior airline experience have any difficulty without any prestudy? I've heard at Brand X (Spirit) even with the prestudy materials the training can/is be difficult. How is training different at Allegiant? Or does Spirit intentionally make their training difficult? None the less I am excited to start training here, but want to make sure I'm adequately prepared prior to showing up to class.

Thank's for any insight!

The way things are setup currently, Allegiant literally does twice as many FTD's and sims compared to Spirit for new hires.

Yup. I worked at both. Allegiant Training (at least Sim training) is very thorough.

You’ll do 10 SITS which are in touch screen trainers. You’ll fly flights and practice shooting approaches and setting up the FMS (all while doing your flows and call outs).

Then you go into the Simulator and have 7-8 sims before your checkride.

Spirit is now 8 SITS, 4 FTDs (a full sim, but doesn’t move) and 5 Full Motion Sims - then your ride.

Thanks for your insight! What training program did you like better? Did you feel adequately prepared even without any prestudy materials at Allegiant?