Small Cheese, I will DEFINITELY be updating and probably phoning when I do. You're absolutely right, the squeaky (polite) wheel gets the grease most of the time!
Thanks Waldo, I'm sitting on about 7,000 hours total time, 727 command experience (121 freight) and 5 years of CRJ (EFIS, FMS) command time since my previous employer went out of business, about 4,000 PIC Jet, so I hope to hear back from them sometime this year to hopefully be in class sometime early next year!
Lots of studying to do, I really need to find a copy of FTBJ somewhere and start hashing on the 747 specifics...
Good luck to everyone!