And so it starts.

Almost 2 months to the day after beginning training, I'll finally be flying the real thing. My IOE (initial operating experience - I fly around with a check airman for the first 25 hours or so) starts in a few hours. I really get tossed into the deep end on my first day because we have a 6 leg, 8 hour flying time, 14 hour duty day that has us making 4 quick turns and a short layover in our base in the Midwest. This will be followed by a 5 leg day and a reduced rest overnight on night 2 with an early morning departure (6am show time) back to our base in the south followed by a deadhead back to the motor city.

It'll be nice to finally fly again. I'll write more about it later this week after I have a few hours under my belt and can actually speak from some experience about the line.