Fixed my threads Buzz.

Just making a point KC....;)

LOL well I think the school is only half the battle. We'll see if I can handle the six leg days in and out of Atlanta in the summer with 90 degrees, high humidity, poor air conditioning, and a delay for each flight where there are thunderstorms in a 200 mile radius of atlanta! Seriously, do you know if I get that extra day off or if I am still on call on the 88? I wasn't sure if you were just being sarcastic or if you actually know.

I was attempting to write with some wit. You are off. The day you showed up for dc9 school was the last day you could fly the 88. Like the 88 gives a $hit:D

True. You can't fly the 88 anymore. However, they can give you a Mid Month Conversion (MMC) I think and you could be on the hook to fly the 9 after you complete OE. I'm not sure if they can do that or how it will pan out schedule wise.

You can check with the 9 OE scheduler and ALPA if no one pipes in with a better answer.

I'm going from the 88 to the 9 here in a few months. How was the transition?

My pea brain looks at it like this, simple...conversion is about pay. oe is about qualification. Once your oe's are done, then your schedule as shown on DLnet matters.

what was the deal back in the day, you could be training for one airplane and still be on the hook to fly the old one? or something along those lines?

Before my time, but yes. Ask some old fester, like Timbo how that worked.:D

so Timbo, what was the deal back in the day, you could be training for one airplane and still be on the hook to fly the old one? or something along those lines?

Absolutely. In fact, just before I got hired, there were guys who were in what was called the "Dual Pool", they were qualed on two airplanes, like DC9 F/O and DC 8 engineer, and they were on reserve, for Both! Scheds could/would call you out for either one! If you were getting close on landing currency, you called scheds and they'd get you on a trip to get your landings. I knew guys who were both 737 F/O's and 727 F/E's.

When I went to MD-88 Capt. (1992) they trained me (at 757 F/O rates of course, because I wasn't Converted yet) and then gave me two IOE's. Then they sent me back to right seat on the 757 where I waited to be converted...for 3 months!

And then, the month before I was to convert to 88 Capt. they made me go to 757 RECURRENT!! But I had vacation in that month, and all they would have had to do is drop one 757 trip, to NOT send me to recurrent, OR convert me one month earlier, and not send me to recurrent.

I called everyone from the CPO to DALPA to try to get out of going back to recurrent, no dice. Luckily my 757 IP was very understanding and let me slide through the recurrent with minimal questions for me.

"Tim, How many engines on the 757?"

Me: "Um...three...NO TWO!" :D

It was in C2K I think, that we finaly got that changed, so now you don't ever go back to your previous airplane, after you complete training, they convert you right away, if not before you've even started training.