Originally Posted by
TANSTAAFL
Carl,
The DGS guys I have worked with have all been fNWA or fDAL line pilots and the training was very good. I too would prefer line pilot instructors because of the continuity between line and school house operations and more pilot jobs. Of course the other side of the coin is if we had line pilot instructors we might not need all those standards pilots showing us how they really do it on the line
And since we don't technically have any standard operating procedure why don't they call them technique pilots?
I personally can't stand DGS instructors. I recently went through 320 initial and the best part about it was the FO instructors and lack of DGS guys. Go through MD88 initial and you'll see just how out of touch those guys are... with reality and the airplane.
With all that said they are cheap labor and not going away anytime soon.