CQFO = Captain Qualified First Officers. It is a temporary stop gap to get captain into the airplane while they wait for current employees to either get throught training or meet the minimum requirements for an ATP. My guess is that with the mins they sound like they are hiring with it is an ATP issue. (ATP = 1500 TT).
I am a former TSA waterskier. When I was there we had high time requirement. 1500TT and 500ME as our mins. I was a Ba4100 f/o then made captain on Ba3100. Nothing like 19 angry passengers to drive you to the cargo airlines.
Long live the boxes........
P.S. TSA has always had a bad washout rate. The class before me in 1996 lost all but 2 people to the sim. It is in their corporate culture to make training a challenge.
Last edited by box-hauler; 02-13-2007 at 03:20 PM.