Originally Posted by
Mesabah
The Pinnacle training department is great if you are a CRJ guru, and have flown nothing other than that. You guys can sit around, and argue over the number of wing rivets in an oral all you want. However, airlines that have multiple different a/c types could never run like that, no one would ever pass.
My last 9E PC was 11 hours start to finish, with all the airwork done at JFK.
One thing I have noticed, in 3 years of giving and sitting in 9e orals, and 13 years of taking them, is that a great deal of students don't/can't/refuse to differentiate between the instructor knowing "this guy knows his stuff, I'm gonna see how deep we can go to kill 2 hours and hopefully teach him or his partner something" vs "he's picking on me and going way too deep to try to fail me." I can't tell you the number of times I heard someone say "X's oral was way too hard and unfair." Did you pass? "Yeah he said I did a good job."
This is especially true of giving orals to CA's with thousands of hours on the airplane. Hopefully they know the basics, dig a little to get the rust off or teach them something new. Do we have a bad apple or two? sure everywhere does. We have one or 2 that I'm sure I'd fail his oral, or get sick of it and just walk out. Not "how many rivets" but darn close. Ironically he is one I never hear on the complaint list. Mesabah, I'm thinking you may have had him in your PC in MSP, since everyone in MEM does their PC out of MEM. He's the only one I've heard of giving a PC in JFK.