Initial training hotel at SLC
 

Has anyone gone through initial ground school at SLC?
Are the rooms a normal hotel setup (one room, two beds) or a suite set up (two rooms, one common area)?

Would you recommend single occupancy?
I.E. roommate has a nasty sim schedule that is totally opposite of yours or something, would that be a massive PITA?

Your roommate might be your sim partner. I think mine is in Denver; he was for CTP and we are roommates again. Not enough captains for all us FOs so we’ll train together as FOs.

The CTP email stated that your roommate is your preselected CTP partner. I believe the ground training/sim stuff after CTP is a different story.

rooms are ok. it depends on the hotel. your roommate for ctp is your sim partner, once you go to initial you will have a new roommate for indoc and systems. for sims they put me in a room with my sim partner which was a good deal.

It’s a suite type setup....there’s one bedroom then where the couch would be in the common area, there’s another bed. Works out well since you both have your own space and you normally get up around the same time for ground school.

You choose sim partners in ground school, so you could have a different sim partner/roommate for sim.

How is ..
 

How is SkyWest the largest regional but they can't afford single occupancy rooms? I seriously don't get it.

Because thats a lot of rooms and the hotels don’t want to or can’t comit to that many rooms... especially around now in SLC. The Sundance film festival is about to start... if we only had 800 pilots and hired 10-20 a month like Compass/Horizon then we probably would. 130 NH’s for January... and 100+ for the forseable future... then add yearly CQ, and FA’s. They are running 50 NH’s every week... our size hinders us in hotel capacity...but you do get your own room during SIM (slc/den)then forever thereafter ... i could tell you that when i started. No hotels and no pay tell “after” ioe, and you had to buy your own charts and uniform....

This thread blows my mind! Skywest should be ashamed to even operate like this. Couldn’t imagine FaceTime with the family.... and the new roommate! How do they handle male/female sim partners?

It has nothing to do with affordability. It's about the limited number of rooms for each class coming to training. They like to keep everybody fairly close to the sim and training facilities to make it easier to get to class. Plus, SLC hotels fill up fast this time of year. If students were scattered all over the Wasatch front in ten different hotels, they would constantly have issues with transportation, traffic, group study, and other things along those lines.

Skywest has been successful for 46 years. Nothing to be ashamed of.