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DE727UPS said:
Wow. I had two years of turboprop Convair time and four years as a FE before my first jet. And even then it wasn't easy. Can't imagine going from a Caravan to a 777.
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To be fair, that wasn’t really the plan. The plan was to put the lower time people on the 737, but then we decided to get rid of that fleet. It’ll be a challenge for them, like @ASpilot2be said, but I’ve really enjoyed working with the lower time ones. They have been extremely eager to learn and seem to realize how lucky they are.
 
Screaming_Emu said:
To be fair, that wasn’t really the plan. The plan was to put the lower time people on the 737, but then we decided to get rid of that fleet. It’ll be a challenge for them, like @ASpilot2be said, but I’ve really enjoyed working with the lower time ones. They have been extremely eager to learn and seem to realize how lucky they are.
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Which is odd, because the 737 looks much tougher than the 777.
 
ASpilot2be said:
It's crazy times these days. My first jet was the A320. I think there were only two people in my class at Frontier that had never flown a jet.

This guy did really well. The hard part is gonna be getting repetition in the jet. I might go two months without a landing.
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I went from a King Air C90B to the A320. It was an interesting jump.
 
Flew with a lot of CFI to right seat on an Airbus at F9 (@ASpilot2be can confirm) when I upgraded...most were cool and wanted to learn and knew that they were lucky as hell to be where they were...a few were....not, very punchable faces and "slam-clicker" vibes.

one of my last flights before I left for AA was a MIA-GUA turn...I asked if he'd been there before (a very common question at the time, as it was a new destination)...he responded..."Until OE, I had never flown outside of Florida".

I was actually impressed with his confidence when he said it...
 
CFIT99 said:
Flew with a lot of CFI to right seat on an Airbus at F9 (@ASpilot2be can confirm) when I upgraded...most were cool and wanted to learn and knew that they were lucky as hell to be where they were...a few were....not, very punchable faces and "slam-clicker" vibes.

one of my last flights before I left for AA was a MIA-GUA turn...I asked if he'd been there before (a very common question at the time, as it was a new destination)...he responded..."Until OE, I had never flown outside of Florida".

I was actually impressed with his confidence when he said it...
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Ah yes, going to GUA with no company info or guidance.
 
CFIT99 said:
Flew with a lot of CFI to right seat on an Airbus at F9 (@ASpilot2be can confirm) when I upgraded...most were cool and wanted to learn and knew that they were lucky as hell to be where they were...a few were....not, very punchable faces and "slam-clicker" vibes.

one of my last flights before I left for AA was a MIA-GUA turn...I asked if he'd been there before (a very common question at the time, as it was a new destination)...he responded..."Until OE, I had never flown outside of Florida".

I was actually impressed with his confidence when he said it...
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Zoinks.
 
FlyChicaga said:
Endeavor seems to be hiring pretty steadily. Also, depending on experience, NetJets? I get e-mails multiple times a month from them looking for First Officers in all regions. I believe their competitive mins have gone up from the 1500-hour mark though. More like 3000 from last I read.
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For what it's worth, NetJets just hired one of our SICs who has about 1600-1700 hours. Another SIC with a similar resume made it through the second interview, no idea if he got an offer or not.

They also hired one of our more experienced captains this month. They're definitely still bringing people in.
 
CFIT99 said:
Flew with a lot of CFI to right seat on an Airbus at F9 (@ASpilot2be can confirm) when I upgraded...most were cool and wanted to learn and knew that they were lucky as hell to be where they were...a few were....not, very punchable faces and "slam-clicker" vibes.

one of my last flights before I left for AA was a MIA-GUA turn...I asked if he'd been there before (a very common question at the time, as it was a new destination)...he responded..."Until OE, I had never flown outside of Florida".

I was actually impressed with his confidence when he said it...
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Wait wait don't tell me. Frontier sent you down there with zero training. Not even a pdf or a PowerPoint.

Imagine that, then make it a red eye turn.

A WTF memory for sure
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roundout said:
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Wait wait don't tell me. Frontier sent you down there with zero training. Not even a pdf or a PowerPoint.

Imagine that, then make it a red eye turn.

A WTF memory for sure
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That always startled me. I am glad the new shop is big on giving us information and doing checkouts to certain places.
 
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