KingAirpilot90

What are they looking for in terms of TT to be competitive? just curious

stickwiggler

Can't give you an official answer, but my new hire class had 4 regional guys in the 6,000 hr range a couple of 10,000 to 15,000 hr guys, one military and one 747 guy from an out of business airline.

CRJ700Master

Which regionals and were they captains or FOs? How was the class? Was it a training horror story as past posts hinted or was it like every other airline?

Packrat

Training at Omni is "firm but fair." If you're willing to study, memorize EPs and profiles you won't have a problem. The Check Airmen expect you to know your business when you show up for a check ride. At every point in time, the IPs will tell you exactly what is expected to move on to the next events.

If you do...no sweat. If you don't, they'll give you a limited amount of extra time to get it together. If you still don't...adios.

There are several gates you have to pass through to get to the final check, but if you make those hurdles, you'll be good to go. Considering the environment Omni operates in, they need pilots who are competent.

If you expect to be spoon fed and signed off with a minimum of effort on your part, Omni isn't for you.

If you're a professional aviator who knows what it takes to be QUALIFIED then the Omni training program will be right up your alley.

robxjt27

The above post is spot on. It's a training program for intelligent, highly motivated pilots. It's pretty rare, in my opinion, for a company to take low time regional FO's and essentially turn them into wide body CA's almost overnight. But the training program is setup to do just that. I know of 3 XJT FO's and 1 XJT CA that have come here in the last 3 months. All successful. I would say at least half of each class or more are regional pilots (both FO's and CA's). I asked about this and the answer was pretty simple: they work their butt off in training and they have a good attitude.

be76flyer

Be very careful about believing "horror story posts". The OMG 50% of the last class busted is more than likely a class of two and one either failed or left before the type ride. This goes for all airline training programs and not just Omni, because I guarantee you if any airline runs a bust rate that high or my guess is in the 20% or higher range the Feds would be all over that airline.

DWDrums

Because the company doesn't want a high failure rate, they will not recommend you for the ride/oral unless they know you are ready. Most of the washouts occur after not being signed off for the ride when extra training events have been given. Work hard, show up with a good attitude, and worry about the task at hand. The instructors are great, and examiners are very fair as long as you do your part. FYI, people have been sent home who have types, and lots of time in Omni equipment.

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orville

Omni will tell you their training is characterized as drinking from a fire hose, and their not wrong. However whats not mentioned is there is a huge disconnect between ground school and simulator; ground does little to prepare you for the sim, and that is why majority of candidates have problems. For example, the sim instructor expect everyone to have everything memorized; flows, profiles,etc, for both seats day one. In addition, If you don't know how to program/run the box day one you're, well, pretty much screwed.

Simulator training isn't so much training but rather a continuous evaluation.

Hope this helps any current and would be candidates.

Packrat

Orville,

The title of your post is fairly ironic because, like Faux News, it contains virtually nothing factual.

Between ground school and sims there is a fixed base simulator program that is quite extensive. If you haven't learned your flows by the time you reach the full flight simulator YOU are wasting the IP's time and the Company's money.

Anyone willing to invest the personal time and sweat equity to learn the EPs/flows/profiles will not have any problem with the Omni training program. However if you're expecting to sneak through without putting in the effort you're out of luck.

You'd better thank God you didn't come up in the era where they expected you to draw the entire electrical, fuel, hydraulic and pressurization systems from memory during a six (6!) hour systems oral. Your head would have exploded.

FL450

Pilots like Orville will have trouble no matter what airline they go to. Instead of spending time complaining on an Internet forum open your books and read. If you're not dedicated enough to put in the work to pass training and continuously educate yourself please find a different profession.