Originally Posted by mike12345

Indoc is 9 days, and boy they are long and boring days. I would recommend not bringing your spouse to indoc unless they really want to. I'd bring them to Florida and let them go to Disney world. After the suck of indoc, you may or may not get a break of up to two weeks.

The actual training was about 20 days or so and is both awesome training and very easy. You begin with some basic general knowledge classes in the systems phase that culminates in a 20-30 minute ground eval. You do about 6 rides in a paper trainer doing basic procedures like flows and call outs. Huge learning curve, and the trainer flies like crap, but the building block approach they use is phenomenal.

You then get in a real sim and do more traditional stuff like V1 cuts and approaches. The sim is great, but it comes so fast you're "proficient" before you know what you're doing.

Finally the last phase is just flying a simple mission that has some things go wrong. You will probably be paired with an FO which makes it tough because you have to know Captain stuff too (even though they say you don't) or you will screw your partner up.

While some people struggle and a few fail out, other than indoc which isn't entirely their fault, it is by far the best, most efficient, and easiest training I have ever received (mil heavy background).

Originally Posted by LakeshoreFlyer

Hi Howard. Yes, I have three internal recs. No blue dart. I went to the WAI conference last week and everyone I spoke to said they were looking forward to meeting me on the 19th.

One of my internal recs said that he asked a recruiter about hiring minimums last month and the response was '1501 hours is good to go'. I'm a little in the dark as to what happened. Did the minimums change? Was it a single recruiters decision? Was it something else on my app that I don't know about? I really have no idea. It's puzzling. I'm not in a position to question and I'm not owed anything by JB so I just have to roll with it.

Like pilotpayne said, I will hang in there and keep moving forward. I hope to see you there someday.

Originally Posted by Std Deviation

You mention "bringing wife to indoc". I saw some mention of that as a company function. True?

Originally Posted by usmc-sgt

Total wild guess but it is my understanding they have recently had issues with folks in training. I am assuming there are multiple steps towards fixing it but simply "higher" time applicants is one of them.

If they did an analysis and found that a larger percentage of failures had similar lower total time than this may be the reason for the sudden rescind of the offer.

The good news...... they wanted you once, they'll want you again.

Originally Posted by Flyby1206

My wife stayed home and I think that was a better choice personally. If they come they sit through the Day 1 orientation, which is hours upon hours of lectures from management about how to run an airline. On Day 2 I believe they are given tours of the schoolhouse and time permitting are allowed to try flying one of the simulators (wouldn't count in it). That night there is a welcome dinner at a local BBQ restaurant.

I'm sure some others will chime in, but I would rather have my wife come down to MCO on a weekend when I didn't have class.

Originally Posted by LakeshoreFlyer

Hiring update.

I'm a regional guy. Applied in the DEC 2013 window with 3000 hours TT, 2000 jet, 950 prop PIC and no Captain time.

I had an interview set up for next week; the March 19th session in NYC. I currently have 3200 hours TT. Last night I got an email from my recruiter saying that my interview is cancelled. It said I don't meet competitive minimums of 3500+ hours TT. I was told to email him when I get to 3500 hours and to reapply in the new requisition which is planned to post in July.

I know some earlier posts said some guys were having a tough time getting through training. Maybe this is the fallout? I don't know. I'm deflated right now as jetBlue is my airline of choice. Like the recruiter said, I'll just keep plugging away.

Thought this would be some good info for those waiting to hear back from B6 if you're under 3500 hours TT.

Originally Posted by txbusdriver

God? Hardly. I don't trust this group anyway. You made an accusation that someone lied. I would provide specific details if I was going to post such a thing.