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I'm curious to hear more. I understand that common type means that much less training is required to fly the new plane for the first time. But once you are tra

I'm curious to hear more. I understand that common type means that much less training is required to fly the new plane for the first time. But once you are trained for several kinds of aircraft, does the airline treat them differently? For instance, will they happily schedule you to fly anything you are type-certified for, tomorrow? Or do they keep you on one type for a block of time, perhaps with a simulator day to remember before switching?

av_throwaway_20 8y ago
They treat them as the same type with only a few conditions regarding recency. For example, out of three simulator checks you need to do one in each type (330/330/350 or 350/350/330 for example). Also need to do at least one takeoff and landing in each (in addition to the three takeoffs and landings in 90 days), in 60 days. Otherwise they treat them the same. I routinely get rostered to fly one type on a short sector, get in, change aircraft to the other type and fly it somewhere else. Literally only an hour to adapt to the other type.