Tinpusher007

Just got my PC done two days ago...I certainly hope I don't get 2 months off before OE like I did for my PC. And BTW...is there somewhere on mymesaba where you can check your schedule?

Lighteningspeed

You can go to Crewweb and check your schedule.

Tinpusher007

sorry...whats crewweb? can u pm me and walk me thorough it? I'd appreciate it.

Lighteningspeed

I'll PM you. You can access Crewweb thru Mymesaba by setting up login.

Squawk_5543

Dude are you serious?? I swear I was reading about you getting hired and starting class and all that like a couple of months before I even interviewed. When did you start ground school??

Tinpusher007

My story goes something like this. I interviewed in early April and was offered employment later that month. Ground school and my official hire date was July 2. Completed ground school at the end of July and was given the month of August off. Went to sims in DEN in the beginning of Sept. Got through it all including oral and loft. Was ready to take my PC on 9/18, the day I was sent home because there were no APD's available to give it. After coming home I was told I'd be back out there a week later to finish up but that trip was subsequently cancelled. TWO MONTHS later on Nov 16th, I returned to DEN and re-did my oral (becuase its only good for 60 days) and was given only 2 warm ups before my scheduled PC. Well two wasn't enough after being off for two months so I was able to get a 3rd and just passed it the other day on the 29th. Such is the -900 training program at XJ that many pilots have gone through. Some were out of it longer than me. Where are you at right now?

Squawk_5543

I'm actually having a VERY similar experience and I feel your pain. I started school on Sep 10 and was originally scheduled to do my PC on Nov 10. Well a few sessions into sims one of the sims broke down on us right before our lesson so we missed it. Well this just created a catastrophic problem for the training schedulers and about 3 weeks went by before we even heard what was going to happen. Right before thanksgiving they tell us are PC is now scheduled for Dec 20 with 3 warm-ups before hand.
So I'm in the same boat brother.

IHateMgmt

You two are lucky little SOB's. Seriously, I'm writhing with jealousy...

IHateMgmt

1. Set up your CrewVoice (you need the pin number to log onto CrewWeb)
2. www.mymesaba.com
3. "My Department" tab
4. "Flight Ops"
5. under the "links and documents" menu, forth one down click "CrewWeb"
6. After logging in, you might have a number of messages to read. You have to look at all the new ones before it allows you to continue. You will know you have seen them all when you can click a button that says something like continue log in. If you have no CrewMessages, it will automatically continue to the main menu.
7. click "View Schedule"
8. After choosing whatever month, you'll get to a calendar type view. You'll see ground school and sim show up as green lines across the days. Travel days show up as orange lines, reserve periods are black, and trips (including your IOE trip) show up as blue lines.
9. On any of these colored lines you can right click and choose details and it will basically give you a start and end time. Once your IOE trip appears, right click it and pick "inquire".
10. From here you can get just about any info you could want about your trip. Most of it is obvious. To see who you're flying with, right click a line in your trip and choose "Flight Leg Crew".
11. A lot of guys like to print their trips out for quick reference. To do this, in the same screen you're already in, just click the "print" tab and make sure to click "show printer friendly version" so it doesn't print the scroll bars.
12. Once you have flown some portion of the trip, go back into the same window. There is a pull down tab where you can choose either "Latest/actual times" or "Original schedules times". This will tell you what your actual credit will be for the trip, and give you an idea of extra overtime you are/aren't making.

There are many other uses for CrewWeb, but this will get you started. Others can feel free to add whatever tricks you have found.

Hope this helps!

Tinpusher007

Make the most of those warm-ups! If you were ready to go before, 3 should be enough, but I would not take the PC if you're not ready. I know the delay sucks, but busting will suck more.