[kellwolf]

Pretty much everything starts right after your checkride, which for me is still up in the air. My sim partner has his checkride scheduled for the 10th at 5 am, and I got the dreaded "We're trying to get yours scheduled for the 11th." Which if history holds any water, I'll have to call them 8-9 times over the next couple of days to remind them. With the exception of the training scheduling, everything has been great so far. All the sim and ground instructors are top notch and every checkairmen I've met has been super cool.

If you've got 5 days in a row off (likely to happen with how backed up sims are getting), they can normally arrange to fly you home, though.