Originally Posted by
recap
Its sounding like the ratio of those who get through training successfully and online is going down.
Can happen to anyone, but I dont want to go into a training program where the odds are against you before you even start, if what I'm hearing is even partly true.
It would seem that the company is content with a low number of trainees getting though in the allotted sessions. Some are asked back, some are not. Is this done on purpose? Those having issues in training but getting online probably arent leaving AWACs anytime soon with their record dinged.
One recent trainee told me they used a cardboard CPT, and you had trainees getting in the sim without really knowing where switches were or how they worked. He said there really didnt seem to be a syllabus, and everything was just being "winged".
AWACs has some advantages for me, but not if I've got a one in twelve chance of getting online without a record of training difficulties.
As long as you don't fail a checkride, it wont be on PRIA. If you go to STL for sim, it will be paper CPT. I think other places have the touch screen CPT. And yes, people have somehow made it to full motion sim without knowing where all the buttons are, how to program the FMS or flows and actually passed checkride and flying the line!! There is something that looks like a "syllabus" but no one follows it. If the stars align, you wont even get to do emergency descent or manual gear extension and get signed off for checkride. So if you think you wont pass, it's your job to walk away.
I have seen them pairing a CFI who knew nothing about the CRJ with someone who had few thousand hours in CRJ and sent them to STL with paper CPT rather than someplace with touch screen. Of course the CFI was behind because the paper CPT isn't as interactive of a training tool as the screens. When you touch a button, the paper isn't going to tell you what light turns on and what msg will pop up. You sit in front of the paper doing callout at your pace, rather than at the plane's pace. And of course, once in sim, they went at the CRJ guy's pace and leave the CFI behind. The CFI failed checkride and was asked to leave. I could smell a set up from a mile away.