Life at Compass

Some highlights from orientation yesterday...

Expect a 20 min sales pitch from Wings Credit Union right off the bat, not sure what was up with that.
Jimmy Johns for lunch, not sure if that was a highlight or not.
Badges given on site, jumpseat home that day no problem. Out of class by 2pm.
"VERY VERY likely" that sims from now on will be in St. Louis. MSP is for recurrent and upgrade. They are currently moving another SIM from Florida to Dallas to be used as well. But either way, hotel paid for during sim.
Ipads are on property and will be using the Lido charts. Still working on choosing mount and location in cockpit, and how to transition current pilots.
When asked about staffing concerns in the future, CP recognized that as the quick upgrade and choose-your-base carrots fade away, that "higher pay, paid lodging in training, and signing bonuses might have to be implemented to attract qualified applicants"... take that for what its worth
Due to 117 rules, expect to give them an excel spread sheet of your last 365 days of flying, day by day with total hours, before first day of ground school. Might be something to work on now.
LAX will be biggest base, but with flow to start in March I believe, MSP DTW will have vacancy if you want them. Id rather stay warm.

Any other questions about the 1 day orientation for anyone coming up, let me know..
 
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PropSettin' said:
"VERY VERY likely" that sims from now on will be in St. Louis. MSP is for recurrent and upgrade.
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Didn't see that coming. Everyone has thought that upgrades and recurrent would go out of MSP first since they have to pay for those hotels anyway... Weird that Uncle Hulas is agreeing to pay for something that he doesn't have to...
 
so, just got my IOE notification and trying to get crewtrac to work on my mac...is there any way to do that?
 
broncoav8r said:
Didn't see that coming. Everyone has thought that upgrades and recurrent would go out of MSP first since they have to pay for those hotels anyway... Weird that Uncle Hulas is agreeing to pay for something that he doesn't have to...
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Thats what we were told yesterday but you know how these things go...
 
broncoav8r said:
Didn't see that coming. Everyone has thought that upgrades and recurrent would go out of MSP first since they have to pay for those hotels anyway... Weird that Uncle Hulas is agreeing to pay for something that he doesn't have to...
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It's actually not that simple. They need the IPT in MSP prior to doing the LOFT and LOE for new hires. So I get the vibe that with all the new hire training going on, upgrades will go to DFW, the bulk of new hire sims are in STL, and rides are in MSP. Maybe recurrent in MSP also?
 
motormadness24 said:
It's actually not that simple. They need the IPT in MSP prior to doing the LOFT and LOE for new hires. So I get the vibe that with all the new hire training going on, upgrades will go to DFW, the bulk of new hire sims are in STL, and rides are in MSP. Maybe recurrent in MSP also?
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GBL can be done in the Sim. We did them in the sim in stl
 
ian said:
Will do....didnt know if I needed crew trac for anything
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Occasionally, Flica lags crewtrac, but it's usually spot on. At least, that's the experience I've had. The view schedule page is Flash, I believe. That might be why you can't get it to work.
 
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