Originally Posted by
NERD
PSA: Capts, with all of the hiring going on, when you fly with a fng and they do a good job, please fill out the probation critique. Furthermore, if you fly with one and think they don't, please address this on the spot. Don't tell them what a nice job they did and sack them on the report. Not cool! That is all.
Agreed. Let's have eachother's backs. While we've hired over 1000 so far, roughly only 600ish are all the way through and on the line. Divide that up over all our bases and planes etc and we have a LOT of CA's that haven't flown with a "new hire" in 6+, or in some cases almost 15 years.
One of the hardest things to do is to slow your routine. Nothing makes a high time pilot bust blood vessles in their head faster than going a mile or two past the marker on downwind on a visual. Its OK (and safer) to walk it back to their speed sometimes. Its the only way they are going to learn. They are new, under a lot of pressure and told they are on probation every 10 minutes. They have to answer to their negative reports with formal carpet dance appointments. No one should sandbag someone by "writing them up" behind their backs in any case.