Originally Posted by Alan Shore

It is truly ridiculous that Delta no longer teaches aircraft systems to its pilots via any sort of ground school. They give you a disk (memory stick) that they pay you to go through once, and then expect you to teach yourself everything else in all the manuals on your own time and dime.

They don't actually test you on anything other than what's on the stick, but the sim instructors sure do whine when you don't know much else.