Originally Posted by
golfandfly
...He said the program wasn't about the pilots, then promptly asked us several questions about our rest prior to the flight and then went into some "stump the dummy" questions about flying cost index and maintaining Mach on overseas routes. The captain stepped up and said since it wasn't a check ride we wouldn't play that game...
It is great to be flying with a captain like that.
Why not go with the tried and proven, very successful LOSA? Instead, our union is having to grieve the way in which these quasi-check rides are being implemented.
I agree with Albief15, QA events, or whatever they're called, are NOT an additional distraction we should have to deal with in the cockpit (talking about vacations and summer events are distraction enough
).