Originally Posted by Hixdog

New hire IOE is 35 hours.

Originally Posted by gloopy

Long call til converted, but plan on being used, a lot, especially the next couple years (you'd be off reserve long before then anyway).

They can give 6 or 7 short calls a month and on most categories most of the time you will get short call or a trip. When you do "sit long call" it usually won't be for long before they give you something else. You will rarely start and then sit for days on long call on a reserve period. Very rarely these days.

The best you can count on is nothing on day one before 10am, although statistically its usually several hours later than that. You can try and snipe the best trips for you (yellow slipping) if you know you're going to fly anyway.

You'll hear legend and lore of guys with long "reserve beards" and some who have to go to the sim to get current, but these days you will fly and fly a lot in almost every category almost all of the time. Chilling out at home very often as a commuter on long call is mostly a pipe dream as well. Most long calls you will see are things like day 3 of 6 on call, or the last day of reserve after finishing a trip, etc. Unless you live in a select few markets, there is no way to commute on long call while being in compliance with the commuter clause as almost every city pair has blackout periods where you won't have 2 (or even 1) flights for a worst case scenario.

Don't plan on much long call for a while.

Originally Posted by 4fans

Ok so I've heard from several unverifiable sources on the various forums that Delta is in fact slowing down hiring to deal with the backlog in training and to free up pilots to fly the busy summer schedule. Possibly as low as 40 per month.

If anyone in the pool gets a call giving them an indoc date, please post with your interview date so we can get an idea of the timeline.

Originally Posted by Tee1Up

5/18 class is reported to be 60 strong. At least a couple of interview groups from the 1st and 2nd week of March got called for that class date over the last few days.

Originally Posted by 4fans

Sweet! That is good news. Keep it coming. I wish we knew how many were in the pool. Now that they are interviewing 16 a day who knows.

Originally Posted by BlaneO

See page 118 of this thread for how we did it last year (ie, tracking every CJO and class start in "the spreadsheet"). The pool was a 4-6 month wait and the spreadsheet was money. It all became moot when they basically tripled the training pipeline and emptied the pool seemingly overnight, but there appears to be some backing up again.

Originally Posted by BlaneO

See page 118 of this thread for how we did it last year (ie, tracking every CJO and class start in "the spreadsheet"). The pool was a 4-6 month wait and the spreadsheet was money. It all became moot when they basically tripled the training pipeline and emptied the pool seemingly overnight, but there appears to be some backing up again.

Originally Posted by badgerned

see page 380. the spreadsheet is back but woefully lacking data. Send me the data and I will keep it up to date until the flood gates open again.

Originally Posted by Bergman

It will depend on which airplane you get of course, but seems like 60-90 days is a fair bet. A lot of people had a 2-3 week break between Indoc and training and will still finish in under 90. I talked with some of the 7ER guys who are waiting a month or two for IOE/TOE after finishing their sims (pipeline is full), which will put them way past 90 days but at least on flight pay after their final sim check.