Originally Posted by
Hillbilly
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.
I agree. The level of systems knowledge today pales in comparison to what we previously got in the old ground schools.
Safety studies have shown that lack of adherence to procedures/Poor CRM, not lack of system knowledge, has caused most pilot error related accidents/incidents. With the advent of the QRH, only bare minimum system knowledge is needed these days.