Originally Posted by
flyboycpa
I challenge the "quality and continuity of training experience" considering that L-UAL instructors are trying to teach newbies how the [predominantly] L-CAL crews operate the 756 out of Newark for European destinations. It's borderline comical to see how the newbies are trained.
I also challenge that a "gargantuan amount of experience" was lost from Houston, as well.
We all know that either training center can teach someone to pass a type-rating ride in a Boeing, to the new United SOP, but it's all the personal little things that are way different. I've seen L-UAL Check Airman with IOE newbies that looked nearly as lost as their newbie-counterpart trying to operate the L-CAL fleet over the Atlantic to a destination they may have only seen once, if at all.
I would also make the statement, that if the shoe were on the other foot, and all training was being done in Houston, that a L-CAL instructor wouldn't teach the A-320 nearly as effectively as a L-UAL instructor, simply due to experience on the airframe.
Congratulations on going down the L vs. L road.
Nothing you said was incorrect, but merely unnecessary, as it was the obvious. I made only operational points with regard to the group as a WHOLE.
The whole point is to MINIMIZE the upheaval. By going to ORD, it maximizes this. IAH, a bit less so. Of the three choices, DEN minimizes this as I'm quite sure the FEWEST new instructors will be needed at that location. I think we all want something more than just passing a check ride, don't we?