Mesaba new hires
01-22-2008, 03:34 PM
#1891
Gear handle manipulator
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: B-737 First officer
Posts: 246
01-22-2008, 03:57 PM
#1892
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2006
Position: C-130
Posts: 381
Got an email from Steve today saying that I am still on for the APR SAAB class but nothing is set in stone...I am actually hoping for some miracle late FEB/MAR start date...
01-22-2008, 05:33 PM
#1893
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: CA
Posts: 531
Travel to class is Positive Space and again Positive Space on your way home once you're done. The same arrangement applies for your SIM. If you go home at all during class, you are non-revving (not positive space). Be weary of going home via non-rev since there is always the possibility that you don't make it back. You can't miss class.
01-22-2008, 06:02 PM
#1894
Line Holder
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Position: Recovering Aviator
Posts: 31
Hey cloudpilot, wondering when your class started, what aircraft you're on, and about what the seniority list is up to now? I think you guys started while I was in STL for sims... Just curious really, I seem to have missed you guys coming on board while I was gone. Thanks.
01-22-2008, 06:12 PM
#1895
Line Holder
Joined APC: Apr 2007
Position: E175
Posts: 28
Travel to class is Positive Space and again Positive Space on your way home once you're done. The same arrangement applies for your SIM. If you go home at all during class, you are non-revving (not positive space). Be weary of going home via non-rev since there is always the possibility that you don't make it back. You can't miss class.
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
01-23-2008, 05:28 AM
#1896
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2007
Position: CRJ900/FO
Posts: 159
This information only applies to new hires...
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
You're absolutely correct. I completely left out that detail. We got the same surprise on the last day of ground school. Nice. I ended up driving to MSP to get positive spaced to DEN. The way home was a very long day...6:30am departure from DEN...lost my bags (again)...dug my vehicle out of 2 feet of snow...and drove home for 5 hours. I had to pull over a few times to rest my eyes because of the LONG night we had celebrating (my own fault) the night before.
Oh...BTW...don't park your vehicle at the Mesaba HQ (in Eagan) if you plan on leaving it there for longer than a few days. Spectrum Shuttle service can/will tow your vehicle. I left mine there on the recommendation of a Mesaba training coordinator and got a call 2 weeks into my SIM training from Spectrum advising me to move my vehicle or else. We worked it all out, but going forward you are not to park there (snow removal, etc...). The reason I parked there in the first place was because the MSP parking lot policy prohibits extended parking in their lots as well. Now, my captain didn't have a problem, but it says right there in the policy that they can tow you if the vehicle isn't moved within 10 days. So, I don't know where they expect you to park if they're going to require you to be gone for up to 3 weeks.
01-23-2008, 06:58 AM
#1897
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jan 2008
Position: CRJ-900 F/O
Posts: 50
Does anyone know what bases will be offered at the March 10th CRJ-900 class? Im hoping for DTW, but will probably be the youngest in class, how do the odds look that I will get DTW?
01-23-2008, 07:03 AM
#1898
Gear handle manipulator
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: B-737 First officer
Posts: 246
This information only applies to new hires...
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
Be careful on this one! The only time that the company will positive space you from home is for inital ground school. After that, the company is only responsible to get you to sim from one of the hubs (MSP, MEM, DTW). So...if you are like most people and have 2-8 weeks off after gound school, the company will NOT positive space you home and will NOT positive space from home. There only responsibility is to get you from a hub to sim. You actually make travel plans with the training scheduler once you revieve a sim schudule and then are only given the option for positive space from MSP, DTW or MEM, your choice.
So, those of you that are new hires, plan on non-rev home between ground and sim. The company did not tell my class this information until that last day of class and everybody was in shock. This was less than a few months ago.
So lets say after ground school I have a few weeks off before the SIM starts and I want to go back home to Orlando. I'll have to non-rev there rather than having positive space? Once I have a SIM date, it is then my responsibility to non-rev to one of the hubs where I will then be positive spaced to the SIM location?
01-23-2008, 07:06 AM
#1899
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 592
I left my car in the townplace suites parking lot for a LONG time. Even called the hotel van to take me to and from the airport. I felt a little guilty about it...but I didn't really have any other options because I had to wait untill I got a parking pass to the DTW employee lot.
01-23-2008, 07:07 AM
#1900
Gear handle manipulator
Joined APC: Jun 2007
Position: B-737 First officer
Posts: 246
I'm in that same class with you. How old are you? Well, I want MEM, which is the least popular, from what I've been told and read. I'm pretty sure I'll be able to get it hopefully. I'm not too sure about DTW though. MSP is the most senior of course.....
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