Skywest Questions

tcco94 said:
I'm coming back to ORD at 92% after training. Do you know how long the expected time is on reserve for you guys (ORD CA)?
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I'd say probably 3-4 months of reserve, depending on schedules after the holidays. I kind of screwed up my bid and should have had a line in November but had a line in June and July. Chicago has been pretty consistent with movement, though. I'm at 75% now with after upgrading in April.
 
AlphaFox23 said:
Thanks, that's definitely the plan. It shouldn't take too long to hold ATL.

In the meantime any best guesses on what would be the "easiest" out of MCO? I know there are a million commuters out of MCO..would ORD possibly be best since it's a dual-hub? Looks like ORD and DTW have the most direct flights (after DFW which actually looks like it'll take as long as ATL to hold).

Edit: Forgot about IAH, which also has 8 flights a day and is obviously a shorter flight time (United/Spirit)

Thanks again
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MCO to ATL is full of deltoids. Not many commute from MLB. I’m fact, all the times I’ve done that route only had 1 jumper and it was a SKW guy making his way to ORD.
 
tcco94 said:
Thank you! Still gotta get through the training, but tons of time to study before class. :cool:
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If you’ve been awake for at least half your flights as an FO and don’t argue with the sim instructors, you will most likely find yourself over prepared with about 3 days of SOPM review (after you do your umpteen million CBTs of course).
 
n156499000 said:
If you’ve been awake for at least half your flights as an FO and don’t argue with the sim instructors, you will most likely find yourself over prepared with about 3 days of SOPM review (after you do your umpteen million CBTs of course).
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Just getting assigned the CBT'S next week, not looking forward to that. I feel prepared, but I guess I always want to over study until I pass the checkride.
 
tcco94 said:
Just getting assigned the CBT'S next week, not looking forward to that. I feel prepared, but I guess I always want to over study until I pass the checkride.
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Know the flows, know the SOPM, be able to answer all the questions in the upgrade study guide (on the Surface in Company Manuals), and be familiar with the QRH vol 2 (basic stuff like how it’s formatted and reading through to the actual end) and you’ve got 90% of it. The other 10% is just going slow, making sure you do it right, and not overloading the other guy when the scenario happens and you start diving up tasks. Literally the one of the easiest check rides I’ve ever done. It’s nothing to do with flying the plane and all about managing time/tasks and CRM/TEM.
 
Oh. And break up the CBTs into small chunks on your days off. Especially for systems the “estimated time to complete” is way off, simply because it either takes too long to click on all the hot spots or, like so many of our CBTs, it says “Estimated 20 minutes” and there’s 30 minutes worth of videos in the middle of it.
 
n156499000 said:
Oh. And break up the CBTs into small chunks on your days off. Especially for systems the “estimated time to complete” is way off, simply because it either takes too long to click on all the hot spots or, like so many of our CBTs, it says “Estimated 20 minutes” and there’s 30 minutes worth of videos in the middle of it.
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Ew. No. Do them on overnights. No work at home.
 
I generally ignore work while at home (to the point I'm downloading updates on airport WiFi and charging my surface in the car on the way in because I left it in my bag the whole time I was home), but my last month as an FO I had two 13 hour overnights per week as I was bidding the same two days back to back each week. I never would have gotten all 54 of them done only doing them on overnights. Just be glad you aren't going through the new setup as a new hire. Those poor saps get 4 days to do about 32 of them and some of those CBTs take nearly an hour to get through even if you just go click click click quiz, let alone if you actually need to read them and learn the stuff.
 
n156499000 said:
I generally ignore work while at home (to the point I'm downloading updates on airport WiFi and charging my surface in the car on the way in because I left it in my bag the whole time I was home), but my last month as an FO I had two 13 hour overnights per week as I was bidding the same two days back to back each week. I never would have gotten all 54 of them done only doing them on overnights. Just be glad you aren't going through the new setup as a new hire. Those poor saps get 4 days to do about 32 of them and some of those CBTs take nearly an hour to get through even if you just go click click click quiz, let alone if you actually need to read them and learn the stuff.
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Yea that sucks. Gotta love the teach yourself method. I’m currently going through that myself. “Total run time of 12 hours.” I’m almost half through and I’m pushing 15 total hours on it. Don’t worry though day one of class is the Systems test and KV.
 
n156499000 said:
I generally ignore work while at home (to the point I'm downloading updates on airport WiFi and charging my surface in the car on the way in because I left it in my bag the whole time I was home), but my last month as an FO I had two 13 hour overnights per week as I was bidding the same two days back to back each week. I never would have gotten all 54 of them done only doing them on overnights. Just be glad you aren't going through the new setup as a new hire. Those poor saps get 4 days to do about 32 of them and some of those CBTs take nearly an hour to get through even if you just go click click click quiz, let alone if you actually need to read them and learn the stuff.
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As a new hire I had pretty square eyes the weekend I did all of those tests. It wasn't hard. It was just extremely tedious.
 
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