ExperimentalAB

Sorry dude, my post was actually just a handful of dry sarcasm...We're on the same team, and the reasons you pointed out are why I ultimately left - I was damned tired of being called unprofessional by button-pushers that couldn't fly themselves out of a wet paper bag; guys that couldn't hold altitude, heading and airspeed, even with a single-cue director.

I could outfly that lousy autopilot down an ILS any day of the week...and I was the non-professional! At least I can laugh about it now LoL

rcfd13

My entire class passed a few months ago and the worst score in the class was 90. The test isn't that hard. You just can't come into it assuming you don't have to study. Everyone was really helpful.

I looked at the questions I got wrong on the test and all of them were valid questions. I just went through them too fast and missed some detail. Read the questions slowly.

John was a pretty awesome instructor. I can't imagine the RJ side having anyone significantly better than him.

jedinein

Another thought on the systems finals, take the final exam twice, using every minute of the three or so hours you get.

Start with the questions you know. Zip. Skip any you don't immediately know the answers. You're at least in the 70s. No go through and do the calculations. 75%. Now go through and do the ones you have to think through, skipping those that you really don't remember. You should be in passing territory for sure, so you can relax and take another crack at those that you have to look over the systems diagrams (for CRJ, don't know about the option for the 'Bro). Now go through and take the test again, beginning to end. If you come up with a different answer, mark it. After finishing the second complete time through, come back for the last time and check those you found a different answer. Chances are your first answer was correct. Think you way through the system and then, turn it in!

Just knowing that you are going to spend the full three hours to take the exam slows you down and lets you RTFQ and RTFAs, saving a few face palms during grading.

Good luck!

ExperimentalAB

Systems tests were not difficult...15 minutes for a 98. Had I taken an extra 90 seconds to read those two questions I missed, I would have aced it. I'm in no way a Rhodes Scholar, so study and you'll be fine - it's not worth even a moment's stress.

PA31

Most EMB FO's get awarded FAT- but currently the 2 most junior PDX FO's have a June 2012 hire date. Within 6 months on the Bro you should hold any base as long as we are still hiring. The RJ is a completely different story.

ExperimentalAB

Anybody know the junior base for the RJ now?

Jet87

The last class was given DEN, COS and ORD for bases the couple of classes before that were given SLC DEN COS, and people always talk about MSP & IAH being junior... So it's probably safe to say anything not on the west coast is a junior base at SkyWest

Pancake

Is TUS a -200 domicile? Any estimate on how long until a new-hire can hold TUS?

Thanks!

amcnd

TUS is pretty small 17 FO's.. PHX has 65.. But maybe a few months.... Trips are no good out of TUS. And its hard to swap/drop trips there.. PHX would be a better option.

CalCUBS

Most junior pilot in TUS was hired in August 2011 it took them about 10 months to hold it, not sure what the future has to hold for the base.