Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
Yes All Knowing, Shackone, you are right in all aspects. I am sorry.Do I pass now?(Cooperate/Graduate)
No.
Putting your pointless comment aside, it ought to be obvious that the only person in this discussion with any first hand facts on this subject IS me. Now, if that hurts your feelings, too bad.
Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
This could go back and forth. You obviously don't understand what I am trying to convey. To answer your questions, look back in my previous posts.
1. Specifically, the CommutAir procedures, added to our procedures. Confusing.
I didn't fall off the turnip truck yesterday. Instructors make mistakes. FSI instructors make mistakes.
Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
2.Taking money, by me not being able to do some training. And then, I had to go down and retrain/brush up these pilots (on days I could've been doing something else), which I wouldn't have to do if in house instructors did in it the first place.
I'm still not clear on why this has cost you money. Did you work those extra days for free? If so, talk to your union. Grieve it. Don't blame that on contract instruction.
Why didn't 'in-house' instructors do the initial training? Not enough of them?
Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
3. The washout rates/failures at my company at the time, and what is said to be like at TSA now (?)
Let's deal with facts. If you have some on this issue, then use them. Otherwise, I'm not sure what you are trying to say.
Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
4. For not following SOP for that company, using unapproved "techniques" taught by instructors
Again, facts, not conjecture. How many busts were due to students using techniques taught by FSI instructors that were contrary to the 'book'? Or is that just a whiny excuse that people use to explain away their own shortcomings?
Originally Posted by
Short Bus Drive
BTW, about the instructor thing... did you have BOTH the student and instructor there together when you asked if s/he taught or didn't teach s/he certain procedures?
Never...the thought didn't come to me to do so. I've been instructing/giving checks for about 37 years now...military, civilian, entry level, recurrent, line checks, CA, FO, and FE, etc, etc. Sometimes the instructor is at fault...I had one of these that I had to fix this last week. But more often the student is at fault...either making excuses or misunderstood something that was said in training.
Call it whatever you want...checkitis, brainfarts, whatever...but don't blame it on the instructor. That's really low rent.