blackbox

We have six 75/76 guys and we have three 77 new hires who are doing INDOC with us.

seoceancrosser

I heard Obama say that he was gonna close Gitmo within his first 6 months as president and Clinton say that he did not have sexual relations with that woman (he pointed his index finger and everything). I don't know what the OTM says, but there are a lot of people that have one idea and when in all actuality it's something different. In the Part 91 world (which trains the majority of commercial pilots theses days) you take a sim ride with a fed observing you get a shiny new certificate with a brand new type rating. No OE, no LOFT just a hardy handshake and you are legal to go fly your new equipment. (way it should be IMO) So with that mindset one would think, "oh I just had the FAA observe my sim ride in this airplane I studied so hard on and they won't be required to observe anything else until I upgrade to the left seat." Every training manual is different. If Joe Blow thinks he will complete class, do sims followed by an FAA observed sim ride PC with a type rating at the end, then they will be disappointed when they send in their resignation immediately there after with the previous assumption that the type is on their certificate.

I don't know how they do it, because the FAA wrote me a temporary on the spot followed my plastic certificate in the mail with the appropriate credentials on it before I even started OE, but it was after LOFT. A person coming here should find out what all is entailed with getting a type rating before wasting everybody's time as well as their own.

johnso29

Yes, but many commercial airlines do not operate under Part 91. I really don't understand what the problem is. What's the big deal with your type not being valid until after the LOFT? I don't see a problem with it, unless of course someone is just going for a free type. And IMO that's low.

Omnipilot

I agree with johnso29. I don't make the rules, but apparently a LOFT is required for a Type, and if it isn't complete the FAA is SUPPOSED to pull the type. They may not always do that, but they certainly have the right to do so.

If a person shows up to just get a free type rating, and then plans to bail immediately after, then I have ZERO respect for that person and they certainly deserve to have the type pulled. If they left for unforeseen circumstances then I understand and can forgive that, but that doesn't mean they get to keep the Type if the LOFT wasn't complete.

Omni isn't here to just hand out type ratings to people who don't plan on sticking around for a while.

BBJay

Things have been awful quiet lately. Is the training backlog getting cleared out? Any chance of more classes being run in the near future?

Hetman

There are rumors of interviews restarting in August and 60 or so hired by year's end.

Completely unsubstantiated, just heard from a guy who heard...

RJtrashPilot

Yeah. Wasn't it your cousin's neighbor's fiance's former football coach's ex-wife?

Desert Sky

What are the approximate times of the current guys getting hired?

DeadStick

Interviewed this week and was offered the job. The 2 other candidates were age 55+ and each had 10K+ TT with heavy time. I'm at 4000+ TT and 3000+ RJ SIC. (Never upgraded). The pool is almost dry and was told to expect an Aug/Sept 75/76 class. Good luck to all...

stuart716

Where the other two retired Delta pilots?