Originally Posted by
Alan Shore
Back when Delta actually trained its pilots, the cockpit panels were often mounted on a trainee's hotel walls and used for chair flying in between bouts of studying systems and preparing for orals.
Yes, but then we got MD88's and nothing worked the way it was supposed to and they figured ... to hell with it. If you teach them how it supposed to work then they just ask a lot of questions and write it up at outstations.