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Old 12th Feb 2008, 16:22
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theidler
 
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Accelerated Command??

Let's do some number crunching.

1000 F/Os at EK right now.
More than 60 have been here 4 years or more.
From the end 2008 2 aircraft arriving a month.
10 upgrades per aircraft (optimistically with ULH).
So in the next 4 years that'll be 960 upgrades (again optimistically).
Factor in around 50 (maybe) Direct Entry Captains (DECs) each year.

That'll be, let's see, 5 and a bit years to command for someone joining in 2008.

Accelerating is only used if none of the 1000+ F/Os are eligible for command.

Remember, every negative comment posted on this site came from someone who joined EK thinking that they had hit the jackpot.
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