I just got a phone call asking me if I want to go to the April 29 Shuttle America class. I accepted, of course. I've been out of the business for two years. Just had my biennial VFR check and IFR proficiency check, squeaking through both of them.

My plan is to spend about 5 hours in an FTD I have access to shooting approaches, studying my regs and going through Gleim commercial, instrument and ATP tests. With regards to Gleim, my plan is to make sure I not only get the answers correct, but understand why they are correct. I will also go through the Flight Ops manual from ExpressJet (my last employer), and go through all the 121 regs there.

I have nearly 1,100 hours SIC in the ERJ-145, so am planning to go through the 145 systems lightly, knowing I'll be learning a new but similar aircraft.

I want to be the best I can possibly be, and would appreciate any suggestions anyone has to my plan on getting ready for class. Suggestions pertaining to all of it, but especially with regards to E-170 systems and callouts would be especially appreciated.

 

Are you furloughed RAH?

 

Read up on Midwest Airlines, whipsaw, and various union busting techniques... Than you should be set.

 

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No, I'm not. I was in the last new hire class two years ago. Right around that time, they lost the Frontier contract. On day 3, 60 of us got sent home

 

Was that the class in April? Any word on what they are doing with the rest of the guys that were in the hiring pool at the time?

 

Yeah, that was the April 21 (I think) class. There were about 60 of us let go. Haven't heard anything about anyone else. I know there's also a May 1 class, not sure which of their other companies it is.

 

I just might have to give them a call and see what's going on.

 

Is this for real??? It sounds like you've got it all figured out, so why are you asking us?

 

You beat me to it.....

 

Looking at the E-170 posters at FS, there seemed to be more AUTO buttons on the E170 overhead than on the ERJ, if you thought that was possible. Sounds like you should be ready, must be nice to go from 0 to class just like that. Congrats! Good thing to know there's movement out there.