-Commutair's average fleet age is 13 years old.

-Piedmont's average fleet age is 22 years old.

Anyone know what the training is in, is it a 100 or 300 sim and how do they do transition training?

Piedmonts sim training is in a 300 now. The sim in Clt was a 100 but converted to a 300. I've been at the flight safety sim in Seattle n Toronto that piedmont uses and those r 300's too. No transition, just a written test with the respective limitations

It was a systems test written by moddlin. My crazy theory is we were ramping up hiring because we were supposedly getting those 200's and when the LGA transaction went through, the folks in PHX realized we didn't need additional aircraft to cover the LGA flying that mesaba isnt going to do after the 1st of the year, thus resulting in us not needing additional pilots. Though we have FO's fleeing like rats on a sinking ship, so maybe my theory doesn't hold water because of the mass attrition as of late

So let me get this right, no retraining for this systems test?
Even though they are hiring 40 per month for the next 10 months?

Excellent fact right here. If that doesnt help low time pilots decide than I dont know what else. You also forgot to mention.......

Commutairs average training pass rate .......95%

Piedmonts average training pass rate........ 65%

Doesn't Commutair outsource training to Flight Safety? There's a huge difference there.

[QUOTE]So let me get this right, no retraining for this systems test?
Even though they are hiring 40 per month for the next 10 months?[/QUOT


Where did you hear that from? That would be 400 pilots, that's close to our total pilot count now.

[QUOTE=PDTPILOT;1086545]Im sorry I typo'd....

Managment xx told me last month we were hiring 12 a month through Sept.

Any word on how the latest class did on that pesky systems written?

Side note, do you only get one attempt at it?