Originally Posted by
Waves
It may be an insignificant or minor point, but does anyone know how the company gets away with recurrent training making a Domestic 767 pilot shoot approaches into Bejing? A friend of mine is going to recurrent next week, and he says that is part of the curriculum. They of course have to get out the China Meters conversion chart to complete the evolution. ATL Domestic guys don't fly to China or need a Chinese Visa, so why are they required to perform International category items such as this? Sounds to me like the training department is trying to sharp shoot the system here.
This may be of no help but I asked, and aside from the conversion chart, it is a RNAV arrival exercise that all need to do. Switching runways as well. Really not that big of a deal. The learning point here was selecting the correct transition.
They also will do a Blue Water track divert using the hard card.
Fyp, the training cycle was approved by the FAA. It is a training SPOT event, and unless you crash the sim, it is just that. No one is graded. I was told they chose this arrival because of the anomalies with the transitions when switching runways.
I did it, never have been to China, and do not have the visa to go do China. It was a ten to fifteen minute event.
If he still has consternation over it, have him call HH on our training committee at ALPA. He will provide the most accurate answer.