The more senior FOs learn of this the more I better get used to being in the bottom 25% of my category. :(

Look at the bright side, unless you want to stay in the same category like them then it gives you more opportunities to move into other positions.

Evidently, some returning furloughees are having challenges too, as some have not flown any kind of airplane in more than a decade.

Will someone decode the acronyms used on this thread? It seems every company has different names for the same thing.

Also, the Embraer has a button that says "fly" which we push when we get to the airplane and we generally wake up at the "fifty" announcement on landing. From the sounds of this thread the -88 is slightly different than that? :D

The "three strikes, you're out" rule has been in the Delta PWA for many years. However, line checks and CQ were exempted from the rule, such that a pilot who failed either could be forced out the door with no prior failures. The recent agreement of which you speak (LOA #30 December 2011) put line checks and CQ into the same "three chances" rule as qualification training.

Also important is that a training failure is much more than busting a checkride or oral. It is failing to make it through an entire training program after repeated attempts, counseling, retraining, etc.

"If you try hard and have a good attitude, you will not fail!" Stan the Man-727FE Ground School-May 1997. Still works almost 17 years later. Welcome Aboard!!

Can anyone confirm how seniority is assigned at indoc? I've heard it's last 4 of SSN high to low, last 4 of SSN low to high, or a combination of these two alternating each class.

That's bad advice? That's how the vast majority of pilots here do it because that's how its structured. And you do not need flows on day one, though it does help to be familiar with them in general. If you RTFP you would have seen that this was a discussion about day one in indoc, not day one in aircraft training. I wasn't advocating showing up cold with only the CD, and why you were spring loaded to manifest that in what I said is a mystery.

Staying late every day during indoc to practice flows is idiotic IMHO and will result in negative training, over emphasis on trivial things and other bad habits. There will be plenty of time for that.

I think your concerns are not well founded. While most pilots cant even imagine how someone could fail recurrent, apparently there are "pilots" who go into it as a 50/50 proposition.

IOW, nobody goes into training to fail, but some folks apparently don't have the tools to regularly pass. Now, its 3 strikes...And GG moves up in his category.

Not for nothing, but training here isn't that hard. Especially recurrent. If you can't do windshear profiles, V1 cuts, and understand procedures and profiles every 9 months in the sim, how are you capable of operating the airplane safely on the line?