Originally Posted by
Normann
I called some heads and heard some real good counter arguments just now.
Can we stop the company from having you come in on your day off into the crew room and sit for 9 hours, stare at your iPad and call it a ground school? No per diem. No hotel. You live in FLL, are based in LAS, come on fly in on your own time, get a hotel, and sit in the crew room for 2x9 hours.
They could teach us all how to use the ipad and the software during our next regular GS. So you are qualified to use the ipad. Once everyone is trained have fun in the crew room. Make sure you sign in with the intern. Btw doors training will be combined with your SIM in the future.
That changes things. I guess distance learning can be implemented with or without this LOA. I guess we have no leverage here.
"Ground training shall consist of all training conducted in a suitable classroom or at any place approved by the FAA."
Don't know if a loud crew room meets this criteria in our contract