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How many times per year do Continental Airlines pilots train in the simulator?

I know that pilots at Lufthansa, for example, have to train 4 times per year, some airlines only require two times. I would like to know how well Continental trains their pilots....anyting you know about their standards would help greatly, thanks!!

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1. Well I'm not an airline pilot but I do have friends who's dads are pilots including one's who's is a continental. I believe when they first get hired by COA and are put in let's say the 737 they go to a 6 week training course where they learn EVERYTHING about the plane and get tested in the sim and all that stuff. Then they get to go and fly and begin their career. But EVERY year they have to go back to the sim to get a checkride to see if they still have the proper skill and knowledge. Pilots may not like it, but almost every pilot usually passes. This check ride is important even to the senior pilots, because a lot of times through their career, they never put up with much of an emergency like engine fire, so a lot of times checkrides go through a lot of emergency procedures hahaha must be fun. Hope this helps! : )
2. Initial hire training is considerably longer than 6 weeks. You will easily spend as much as 90 days in the training department before you are released to line duty. As to sim training, I know a couple of guys at Lufthansa, I almost went to work for them myself back in the early 80's.... and I have never heard of them going to training (Sim) more than twice a year. Now.. if you changed aircraft, that could change things around... but that still only work out to about 3 times in one year. The FAA reduced the requirements on medicals as well as training cycles to ease some of the cost (it is fabulously expensive to train pilots, and keep pulling them off line to go to the "school house") and you now only go once per year unless you are changing seats or equipment. When you consider that the majors have first officers that have been in the seat for 20+ years, you have more experience in the cockpit now than probably any time in history. Continental operates at the same basic training cycle as all the other majors in the USA.
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