Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
It sounds like you have a great background for the job and will hopefully be able to bring a ration of common sense into the job, though JO said that ideas run deep in that office, but each office is different.
I had a CRM class with a retired JAL CA about 2 years ago. There is certainly a mixture of expereince out there it seems. You mentioned in an earlier post that your initial class seemed to be a 50/50% mix of civilian and military.can you give other readers a more detailed breakdown of the types of expereince you saw in your training? We've had a few posters on APC asking for some information and have, including you, at least 2 or 3 current ASIs who participate. People curently going through training though are always a latest and greatest source of info for what it takes to break in or what they can initially expect in the job.
Well, lets see as far as the class makeup goes...The age range was about 28 through 65. I'd say the average was around 40ish, with the majority of folks in their late 40s to early 50s.
There were only two women which were cabin safety folks. There was an almost even mix between the ops side and maintenance. There were just a few airworthiness and a few avionics folks as well.
I wanna say that only a few were recently out of the military with the majority having been out for years. There were only a few folks still doing the reserve thing.
With respect to where everyone was from...Let me see what cities I can recall:
Anchorage
LAX
SEA
DTW
DFW
HOU
ATL
MIA
NY/TEB
DC
CAE
I seem to recall that many had their paperwork in for a long time and only a few for a short time.
There were only a few air carrier like me, with almost 90% heading to the GA side....