Originally Posted by
jayray
You may be right on a lot of your points but having been trained by 3 different organizations and from other comments I've heard from pilots trained at Eagle and then XJ and then 9E (as well as pilots hired at 9E, trained and then quit to go to Skywest) the training at 9E is a big part of the problem. It just isn't up to par with the rest of the industry. The training philosophy and the training department as a whole needs to be overhauled. It is a century behind the times. Should people not be allowed to upgrade? Probably. But if you are constantly having a 40% failure rate then maybe someone needs to re-examine the training department. The haul damage statistics for 9E don't bode well either for their training philosophy.
I don't deny our training could use some improvement. Hell my CRJ ground school was taught by a ramper without even a pilots license. Luckily the quality of training once you get to the sims and beyond is pretty good.
Like IB I too would like to know how our training philosophy could have prevented our 3 accidents? 2 of which the aircraft are still flying? Like IB said 2 were caused by pilots who had no business being in an airplane and the other was WX induced with possible faulty info received by the pilot. How can you fault training for 2 CA's that go off the deep end?