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Derg said:
Only if you change your entire wardrobe to that ridiculous "Duluth Trading" AND get the stupid mustache too.

People ain't chopping wood in that shizzle.
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I think it was in Copenhagen that we stumbled across (probably literally thanks to many good beers) a very euro and quite hipster'ish Carhartt store. Had no idea they had an upscale line, I doubt those goods would sell back home at the Rural King in Indiana.
 
bike21 said:
I think it was in Copenhagen that we stumbled across (probably literally thanks to many good beers) a very euro and quite hipster'ish Carhartt store. Had no idea they had an upscale line, I doubt those goods would sell back home at the Rural King in Indiana.
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It was basically an entire store of Washed Duck Manpris?
 
I will be doing the CTP course in SLC in January.

Does anyone know if we will write the ATP knowledge test at the end of the course in SLC or is that completed on our own back home during the week+ gap to start indoc?
 
Acrofox said:
Same.

I destroyed some other pants pretty impressively.

They held up. I like the flannel-lined ones.

-Fox
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The flannel lined are great if it's freezing-ass cold anything other than that they're overkill. I like the double-knee work pants. Only thing that survives any reasonable amount of loading airplanes and working the shop floor.
 
NWpiloté said:
I will be doing the CTP course in SLC in January.

Does anyone know if we will write the ATP knowledge test at the end of the course in SLC or is that completed on our own back home during the week+ gap to start indoc?
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You will finish the CTP course in SLC after a brainless short quiz. If your class date is just a couple days after the CTP, then you most likely will not go home and end up taking the ATP written in SLC. I had two weeks between class and CTP so I just went home, paid Mr. Sheperd Air, and took the written.
 
NWpiloté said:
I will be doing the CTP course in SLC in January.

Does anyone know if we will write the ATP knowledge test at the end of the course in SLC or is that completed on our own back home during the week+ gap to start indoc?
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I would do the one day course at ATP or something similar and show up with the ATP written complete.


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WAtreefifekaybeck said:
You will finish the CTP course in SLC after a brainless short quiz. If your class date is just a couple days after the CTP, then you most likely will not go home and end up taking the ATP written in SLC. I had two weeks between class and CTP so I just went home, paid Mr. Sheperd Air, and took the written.
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Ok cool - I have about 10 days between completion of CTP and starting of Indoc. So I guess I will be like a little sheep and complete the written at home.
 
What happened to MSP? It looks like all new hires are going to DTW/ORD and the reserve line is biggest in MSP.
 
tcco94 said:
What happened to MSP? It looks like all new hires are going to DTW/ORD and the reserve line is biggest in MSP.
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It was a big base, they kept staffing it then shifted flying to Detroit. My friends were hired last April and they still are around 25 numbers from being the most junior line holder there. It changes quick
 
Ayork62493 said:
It was a big base, they kept staffing it then shifted flying to Detroit. My friends were hired last April and they still are around 25 numbers from being the most junior line holder there. It changes quick
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Yeah it looks like it's almost a year to hold a line?

I was hoping to get it in training next month lol. Maybe when I'm out but still the most junior reserve is 3 months now. They could switch the flying back to MSP right? Seems like it's all just a gamble
 
tcco94 said:
Yeah it looks like it's almost a year to hold a line?

I was hoping to get it in training next month lol. Maybe when I'm out but still the most junior reserve is 3 months now. They could switch the flying back to MSP right? Seems like it's all just a gamble
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It's definitely not the junior base anymore. You may end up commuting to Detroit or Chicago for a bit but honesty I think you could get in before you are on the line. I know you moved to what was a junior base hoping to avoid commuting. So did I, ended up commuting to reserve for five months. To be honest, I've stopped trying to understand the way they staff bases. My pilot brain can't comprehend it.
 
Ayork62493 said:
It's definitely not the junior base anymore. You may end up commuting to Detroit or Chicago for a bit but honesty I think you could get in before you are on the line. I know you moved to what was a junior base hoping to avoid commuting. So did I, ended up commuting to reserve for five months. To be honest, I've stopped trying to understand the way they staff bases. My pilot brain can't comprehend it.
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Hopefully it won't take that long to get in base. I guess we'll see how long training is.
 
JordanD said:
Not sure what you mean, but regardless, you will hold captain on the CRJ long before the ERJ.

My advice, pick the CRJ. Reserve is really long on the ERJ, your seniority will get pushed down as more senior people transition, and you have WAY more base options on the CRJ, unless you happen to REALLY want to be based in PDX, which is ERJ only now.

Otherwise, you end up in the boat I'll be in, which is a year and a half here and barely 500 hours in type, with my seniority potentially being able to hold CRJ captain 4-5 months before I'll have the hours to hold it. Also, the ERJ is way more highly automated. The ERJ is a great airplane that I love flying, but upgrading AND going to a much less automated aircraft that I've never flown, which we fly 3 different variants of, is going to be a challenge. Maybe @Autothrust Blue can shed some light on that, although he flew the Bro and is much less stupider than I am.
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Meh.

Airplanes are airplanes to a certain extent, and jets are jets; the -200 is a particularly insufficient example of a jet, but it works, and for the missions we fly it on in the MSP/DTW system they're adequate enough airplanes.

(They've straight up forgotten to give me OOE, so I can't speak to the 700/900, but I would assume based on what I got in differences that they're much more adequate airframes. Slats, y'know.)

General training advice: If you are a good pilot, studious, and forget the "other" airplane's procedures on Day 1 of class when you show up, neither airplane should be difficult to upgrade to. The difficulty in upgrading to a jet I've never flown before is that I don't have the luxury of going "Oh! it's doing it again," but I have to say "What's it doing now?" instead, and figure out - potentially with a fresh first officer in the right seat.

Despite the assertion that the procedures were "harmonized" to be like the E75 when the CRJ SOPM was rewritten, they were not really that harmonized. "Check" vs. "checklist" falls under the "OFFS*" category, and other warts.

* not allowed to say that in Derg's living room

trafficinsight said:
Your mileage may vary, void where prohibited.

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I've ended up where I needed to be.


- Douglas Adams
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I'm pretty sure he was talking about my life as well.
 
Autothrust Blue said:
Despite the assertion that the procedures were "harmonized" to be like the E75 when the CRJ SOPM was rewritten, they were not really that harmonized. "Check" vs. "checklist" falls under the "OFFS*" category, and other warts.

* not allowed to say that in Derg's living room
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File it under "things that don't really matter."

I'm not exactly sure how well you can harmonize procedures between two vastly different airplanes that are 2 decades apart in terms of development. Never seen the 175 SOP though. I'm sure there's stuff what's better and stuff what isn't.
 
trafficinsight said:
File it under "things that don't really matter."

I'm not exactly sure how well you can harmonize procedures between two vastly different airplanes that are 2 decades apart in terms of development. Never seen the 175 SOP though. I'm sure there's stuff what's better and stuff what isn't.
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Take a gander sometime; you'll see the room for growth, IMO.
 
I just got all my CBT's assigned yesterday for indoc starting Monday. It says there is a indoc test Monday...that's after the first week right?
 
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