ViperGuy69

Is Delta currently hiring SLI’s in all airframes?

If a NH is interested in becoming an SLI sooner than later, is there a particular aircraft they should bid for at indoc to increase their chances?

Can you get hired to teach an aircraft that your seniority can’t hold yet?

Is the new training facility at SLC up and running yet, and which aircraft will be doing training there?

Thanks,

dragon

I don't think they are hiring 220 SLIs right now, not enough students but that changes. A NH should try NB, 320 and 73N are growing fleets with the MAX coming we'll need more SLIs.

I know of people who taught on aircraft they couldn't hold but they usually come over from other fleets.

As to the SLC training center, latest is 2Q25 which has slid a year.

Lifeisgood

Fleet doesn’t matter. You need to be a quality individual caring more about customers and success of the team, than a good deal for you.
Then it doesn’t matter if you are a NH with no experience on type or have 30 years on the jet you will be teaching on. 750 hrs min Delta (any jet) time and you can apply.

You can put in a preference to teach out of Slc or Mia, but don’t assume it will materialize all the time or even ever.
Save your complaining for someone who has time to listen, keep in mind it’s not your boss, nor the customers.

cskafan123

Here is another question. With the new contract SLI will be awarded 17 duty periods. For those working as SLI , how are the lines constructed? Are there double duty periods or every day consist of a single duty period?

Also for those instructors who aren't ATL based does the company provide accommodations and positive space when going to and back for work?

Thanks

MJP27

Yes, we get PS to and from work and paid hotel rooms, usually at the Renaissance.

Your schedule depends on wether you are a commuter or not. I'm a commuter and in the 320 department, the schedulers are commuter friendly. I get blocks of days that are commuteable with a good number of doubles. My goal is work 14 days or less a month for 100 hours of pay.

Someone who isn't a commuter may want to chime in.

dragon

With the new TA, SLIs will get 90.1 hrs for 17 events.

For the fleets that use off site simulators (Miami) the schedulers are more than willing to work with you since not many actually want to do Miami.

cskafan123

Thanks for the replies. Are there plenty of OT (sim events) for an instructor to pick up? Also, does the company pay for the time when an instructor travels to and from base(DH)? Finally how often do you guys get pulled from the training to fly the line?

Tnx

DisMyGamerTag

They have hired a ton of instructors over the last year. A lot of non SLI as well. They pick up sim events too.

That’s not to say there won’t be more hiring especially on the larger growing fleets.

So I would guess there are events needing coverage but that they find the coverage unless it’s an event that requires a PCP/DGP or APD. Those can go uncovered when they’re at very unattractive times, but then again they may be upgrading a lot of SLIs to PCPs.

Simulator and instructor schedules are all on Deltanet. Basically training is like crew resources, if there is a fire (short staffing) they’ll focus on putting the fire out. Don’t plan on green slips 4ever or 20-25 sim events a month.

I know they hired warm bodies last year that had been turned down in previous interviews. Now once they have staffing pipeline improved, they can get rid of them if they did not pan out (bad student and observer reviews) and hire some better quality new hires who are hitting the min time threshold or recently retired (looking at you ex LCA).

You are not paid to commute in and out.

Instructors fly 4 months a year, they bid for the months, those fly months can be taken back or extra fly months forced on them. Not uncommon for people to go months without flying or keep being sent to fly when they want to be in the sim.

Btw the 220 I think is the most difficult gig given the jet is not in ATL. They also have very little training right now with the slow arrival of new jets and guys not bidding off at the predicted rate. That’s just an observation on my part I was not a 220 instructor.

tunes

depends on the fleet. some fleets can have 10+ extras for an instructor, some can have 0

ETFtwpD

Thanks to all that have provided excellent info on being a Delta SLI. To add a question, what fleets do the most training in MIA, and is that subject to change with the SLC training facility I've been reading about?