[QUOTE=vilcas;1622852]Seniority allows you to bid for upgrade but the training department should not be responsible to make sure that you do. If you show up for training unprepared and unmotivated the training department should expedite your return to the right seat. The training department should be a resource to help the candidate. Help but not do it for them. OE is tricky since sometimes deficiencies aren't properly uncovered and the pilot gets signed off prematurely. I am glad the planes are good and help the pilots do their job. If you would refuse a plane with no autopilot, flight director and FMS into LGA then you don't belong in the flight deck.[/QUOTE]

It's this unfortunate mentality that was common at Pinnacle that allowed management to get away with broken APU's in MEM in the middle of summer for the entire 10 days allowed by MEL all the time. There was NO excuse to allow that. It's DANGEROUS!!! Legal, yes. Dangerous, absolutely. Sadly this group overall has no balls to say no. 85% proved that.