American Airline Training
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Joined APC: Dec 2010
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Well.. Flight attendants only train for a month while it usually takes the pilots two months or a bit more. So the flight attendants often say... wow another month of training I could have been a pilot.
Basica indoc .. company stuff
Home study ground school then ground school with an instructor and your sim partner.
Couple weeks of simulator.
Basica indoc .. company stuff
Home study ground school then ground school with an instructor and your sim partner.
Couple weeks of simulator.
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Joined APC: Oct 2005
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Two weeks of orientation/basic indoc in Dallas learning company policies and "how to be an airline pilot at AA". There's other stuff in there like leadership training, TEM, and emergency equipment training. You'll also spend a lot of time inprocessing as an employee during indoc (email/systems access, pay, bennies, etc.).
After that (a few days after indoc), you'll do a one-day base indoc wherever you were assigned.
After that (2-4 weeks on avg.), you'll go back to Dallas (everything except E190) or go to Charlotte (E190) for aircraft training. 737's and 320's have 20-25 hrs of CBT's before you show up. E190's don't. Aircraft training (ground school/sims) last about 3-1/2 to 4 weeks.
After that, observation rides and OE. International assignments get an additional 2-3 days of international training in Dallas.
I think that's about it...
After that (a few days after indoc), you'll do a one-day base indoc wherever you were assigned.
After that (2-4 weeks on avg.), you'll go back to Dallas (everything except E190) or go to Charlotte (E190) for aircraft training. 737's and 320's have 20-25 hrs of CBT's before you show up. E190's don't. Aircraft training (ground school/sims) last about 3-1/2 to 4 weeks.
After that, observation rides and OE. International assignments get an additional 2-3 days of international training in Dallas.
I think that's about it...
#10
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Joined APC: Nov 2014
Position: B787 FO
Posts: 294
Short answer....if you meet the extensive prerequisite experience, you already know in a broad sense what training consists of.
If you don’t know, by the time you meet the prerequisites you will.....
For everyone else, just know that the pilots at AA are thoroughly trained and evaluated before ever stepping foot in an AA cockpit
If you don’t know, by the time you meet the prerequisites you will.....
For everyone else, just know that the pilots at AA are thoroughly trained and evaluated before ever stepping foot in an AA cockpit
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