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Old 01-13-2013, 06:27 PM
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Originally Posted by HalinTexas View Post
May 15, 2011.

Another 6 weeks or so. Lots of OJT to do.
Almost 18 months of training before you even get to the line?
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Old 01-14-2013, 06:41 AM
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Originally Posted by Palmtree Pilot View Post
Almost 18 months of training before you even get to the line?
You are not counting the fact that after you get certified by the JCAB on your line check, you will fly on the right seat with another captain until you get route checked on Skymark's route structure, this takes another couple months
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Old 01-15-2013, 12:21 AM
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Sorry, 2012. Typo.

Dominican, that's not what's in our training syllabus. It states: 6-10 legs observation; 6-10 legs right seat OJT plus 2 leg company check; 2 hrs. LOFT sim; 30-46 legs CA OJT plus 2 leg JCAB check; then another 2 hrs. CRM/LOFT sim.

A big part of failure is attitude. Then visual/circling approaches, non-standard callouts, then knowledge. You can muddle through a lot of things, but you can't fix stupid or @sshole and their has to be a point where you can't fix circling approaches. They do a lot of those here and in Asia in general.
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Old 01-15-2013, 03:13 AM
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Sorry if I posted erroneous info, that is what I understood from friend that are at SKY, they stated that after the official line check you had to ride on the right seat until you were checked in all the airports they operate in.
Over at AJX you have to ride on the right seat into every airport the first time you go, that is why it sounded correct when they said it.
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Old 01-15-2013, 05:49 PM
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think i'll keep my china job....i am used to and quite adjusted to the chinese....cant imagine having to unfuk that, and learn the japanese way... know one ex shenzhen air guy there now...wonder how it 's going for him?...of course there is a guy at shenzhen air who came from skymark in 2010 after spending the endless training cycle and getting diked around...oh well.. life as a contract pilot...
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