Originally Posted by
CBreezy
Tinman, reading comprehension aside, my posts have nothing to do with entitlement. As a professional pilot, I want assurances that I am not assuming all the risk when I step into the cockpit. A company that hires anyone with the minimum requirements without any form of selection criteria is making the pilot assume all the risk. In my opinion, if you've never been through airline training, it is PROFESSIONAL of an airline to not permit anyone who has subpar piloting skills through your door at the risk of failing training. What's even more sad is that a company would allow anyone through the door with ATP mins regardless of their airmanship.
I get what you are saying, but it sounds like you are throwing yourself a giant pity party because an unstable segment of the industry that pays fast food entry level wages cannot attract skilled workers. Regional and mainline management collaborated on this one...this is their baby. The relaxed standards in terms of hiring is an industry wide event. Go look up interview gouges from 3-4 years ago and you can see a difference. It's all supply and demand. The market was flooded with applicants for fewer jobs back then and companies had to look for ways to slim down the pool of applicants to fill the few available slots.
But let's be honest, we're not exactly flying the space shuttle and anyone semi capable with enough motivation and effort can make it through a 121 training program. I used to work with a lot of instructors whose airmanship, let's just say, left a little to be desired and nearly every single one of those clowns made it through 121 training at a variety of different regionals. Hell I know of more than one regional that doesn't even do a sim eval anymore. Are all of these companies setting their candidates up for failure? Folks seems to be making it through training...
It has NOTHING to do with the interview, or lack thereof. The hilariously low pay and working conditions are attracting the kind of pilot you keep mentioning in your posts.