Widebody line training sectors for low hour pilots

[RMC]

There seems to be an ever increasing number of airlines taking turboprop pilots, with less than 1000, hours straight into wide body / heavy types.

Assuming no significant previous experience what would be the minimum line training sectors for this kind of non type rated pilot in your airline?

Have heard Emirates expect around 40 sectors from - 8 to A330.

[+TSRA]

Have heard Emirates expect around 40 sectors from - 8 to A330.

When building a line indoctrination program, one aspect you look at in addition to the regulatory requirements is how much time will the average trainee pilot need before they are no longer increasing the workload of the average line pilot. There are a lot of factors that go into that, but the ability to operate the aircraft with almost no coaching is certainly high on that list. I've only built training programs for turbo-prop pilots, in all the programs I built, once we hit that sub-1000 hour mark, the line indoctrination requirement increased to 75 hours. The average sector time used in the calculations was 2 hours, which is 37.5 sectors doing the math that way, so that sounds right given that most of line indoc is discussing the operation and different techniques used to achieve the desired results.

[RMC]

Great answer +TSRA. Suspect that logic holds good throughout the industry.

[rudestuff]

Not a wide body but my first company took 200 hour cadets onto the 757 with 42 line training sectors.

[deltahotel]

And, indeed, still does!