Thanks man!

We just came thru IOE. It was less than a week.

For those of you who have recently interviewed, within the past month, which book(s) do you think helped prepare for the written test? I spoke to a recruiter last week and he said the entire interview process has completely changed for you guys and now its only a written and basic oral interview. Just trying to figure out which book(s) would be best to read and to avoid. Thanks!

"Turbine Pilots Flight Manual" was a good start.
"Everything Explained for the Professional Pilot"
Those were the two books I used the most and found to be the most beneficial.

Also, looking up some of the "Delta Job Knowledge" gouges can be helpful, just use caution as not every answer is correct on some of those examples, so always verify.

Go West..
 

First Post, but i've read several dozen pages of backstory :-)
I'd be grateful for advice from folks on the line:-
I'm considering a move from NYC to LA, albeit in the medium (6-18mo) timeframe. With the fleet choices & current domiciles, how unpleasant or unworkable would a LGA/JFK commute to a likely base be. Is it a trip that others make?
i'd rater not take a job at an East Coast carrier then try to move laterally, so am willing to take some short term pain.
thanks y'all.. /PL

Here is what my friend said when I showed him your post. He did LAX-JFK commute for a year in 2009.

"It sucks a**!..."

And I didn't do the commute and I would advise against doing it. You'll seriously want to quit and leave aviation after a short time.

If you are not going to move right away I would suggest 9E.

It's probably not gonna be easy but it's certainly do-able, at least for short term. You'll be in training for the first 3 months anyway, and then you'd probably only need to do a few months in LA before getting MSP as a base, one guy from my class got MSP out of training, a much shorter commute. However, that situation could change at any time. I think it's a good place to be and as long as you know you are getting into some short term pain it's do-able. Another one of my classmates used to commute HNL to JFK via LAX for a different airline... Just get familiar with the commuter policy.

We have a few east coast commuters. They typically bid for long work blocks and are away from home for a couple weeks at a time. If you have a significant other they won't be happy with you. It's a long transcontinental flight after all and can be full most of the time. However, it is doable if you have your life all set up in NYC. I don't see us having a strong presence on the east coast for the foreseeable future.

For all we know, lax could close next year. Delta shuffles us around yearly...
2013 the year of LGA
2014 the year of LAX
2015 the year of SEA
2016 the year of ____
It would be fun to hear stabs for 2016... I've heard ORD and BOS.
Back to the question, there are a lot of flights from NYC-LAX. It's just that, they're all very long. You probably won't want to sit in the cockpit. Also good news: all of our trips look commutable on the back end(if you're on time)