Oct Class
 

Anyone have the ability to start a thread for the Oct class? My newb-ness won’t allow me to create it myself. TIA!

October 2022 New Hire Class
 

Congrats! Welcome to Brown

Its created. Congrats!

Oct Class
 

4 Oct date for me, looking forward to hearing any news and connecting…super excited to hear from everyone!

Oct Class
 

4 Oct date for me, looking forward to hearing any news and insights

I’m slated to start training on 04-Oct. Completely stoked!

CJO Oct 3 class. So relieved and excited!

Onboarding
 

Got a text message this morning directing me back to the ups jobs website. Finished all the onboarding paperwork...assuming a FJO letter is next?

Probably mid August unless they have follow up questions. I was asked again for fingerprint cards after I submitted.. but then UPS found them.

Welcome to Brown.

Thanks! Looking forward to getting started in a few months

Aircraft Preferences
 

Hoping folks could pass some knowledge to help me start building my list of aircraft preferences. I searched for this info but couldn't find anything posted recently..if I missed it just let me know.

Anyway, I'm scheduled for the light twin class and based on my age (38) I figure I'll be right in the middle (or slightly aft) of the pack when it comes to class seniority. I'm married, no kids and plan to commute from the Florida Panhandle (Destin/Pensacola) so instead of week on/week off I'd prefer a single long trip or perhaps 2 shorter trips spaced out a day apart so I could just stay in SDF on the off day. Overall I'm trying to minimize the time I spend commuting and maximize the total amount of consecutive days spent at home. International flying definitely interests but that would be a secondary priority to the schedule I just described.

All that said, I know I'll be the new guy and understand I'll be a bottom feeder for awhile but which SDF based airframe would you recommend? TIA, I'm excited to meet a lot of you on the line!

I don’t believe they are offering SDFZ to the light twin classes currently, so the only international available would be on the Bus to Mexico and Canada. That said, take SDF 75 and you could bid over to Z in December.

Z has been offered to all classes (heavy and light). However, only 2 were awarded for the July class.

Is junior Z flying just domestic because the international goes senior?

You'll be do Asia flying cause no one likes SZX.

Z is all international. 75/76 SDF is domestic. It is separated from 75/76 Z

slight correction.
757SDFZ is partially domestic and international. 757SDF is domestic.

well ya sorry, partial domestic with the Z but mostly international

I wish we could trade classes 🤷‍♂️

Is there a group chat for this class yet? GroupMe/Whatsapp/messenger?

Not that I've seen. If you shoot me a PM w/ your phone number I'll start a GroupMe.

We’ve got a 3 Oct Heavy Class WhatsApp going. PM me if you’re in the class and I’ll add you.

We have a WhatsApp chat going if you’d like me to add you?

PM sent. thanks

Trip trade with open time and drop stuff on the trip board. With persistence you should almost always end up with something palatable.

Any way to predict where the 74 training will be? I live in ANC so that outcome would be significantly better.

Regardless, very stoked to be in the 3 Oct class!

None that I'm aware of. I did anc mia sdf in that order. Others in my class were in anc the whole time. If you' live in anc assume you'll get sdf and mia. Welcome to brown!

Are md and 75/6 sims all in sdf?

During our Indoc, the training scheduling folks briefed the class, if I recall correctly, in the second week and we received our draft training schedules. I would ask the Indoc facilitators for an email address and make your request, if possible, when you get there in the first week. If for some reason you don’t get an address and can’t communicate with training scheduling, just speak with them after they brief you at Indoc. Worst case, I would guess, is there will probably be someone in your class wanting to stay in the lower 48 for training, so it wouldn’t be difficult for the schedulers to swap locations/schedules. Clear as mud?

Very helpful, thanks all!

All MD sims are in SDF. Not sure about 75/6, but think they are as well.

We use a 75/76 sim at Boeing in Miami as well for CQ. New hires are trained in Mecca.

We don’t train in Miami on the 757/767 anymore. Boeing didn’t want to upgrade to LDS.

I've heard Boeing called a lot of names, but Latter-day Saint is a first :D

Oct 4 Bubba
 

I'm a 4 Oct new hire. I can start a whats app if you PM me for that class. Ive sent some PMs for a class chat with no responses.

October 4 class here, PM sent.

October 4th Class as well. PM sent

PM sent x2. Lol

Sounds like we have two separate chats, a GroupMe and WhatsApp. We have 6 folks in the GroupMe, how about the WhatsApp? We can move everyone to whichever chat has the most folks.