Originally Posted by
MD80driver2day
How many people were "pinked" last year?
Why are you unprepared to go into a PC? Many other airlines are not AQP, and see the sim on a 6/12 month basis. With the ability to have items retrained on a PC, you really have to F- up many times to bust one. That's on you... Not the training department.
Yes, the TDY's sucked....
AQP resources diverted to what? You know this how?
Again, let's talk in truths and not what the guy I flew with told me because he heard it from his FA. There is enough factual information to put on here that we don't need to embellish or speak in half truths.
I guess I should not have listened to all that stuff from the flight attendants. Lol. I'll never learn
Not everything is managements fault, but a lot of it is and it boils down to cost containment. Training doesn't help the profit/loss ratio and therefore gets marginalized.
In the interest of avoiding half truths, here are a few facts.
Fact: In the last six months alone there have been 2 new hire pilots terminated during Airbus training. One more is pending termination, which would make 3. We could debate the circumstances surrounding those, but the facts remain, they are now gone. There are many more who have busted rides and been retrained. Not healthy for your resume. That is just Airbus and guys I am aware of, there might be more. I'm not affiliated with the training department, and being back East, I get limited information on the other fleet types.
Fact: AQP has been on the back burner for eight years and the individual hired to bring AQP online has been moved to oversee the development of the ADAP software video training program, designed to eliminate cost by reducing the amount of time spent in ground school. $$ generator.
Fact: the training department has been shut down by the FAA
Fact: the MD-80 Systems ground school was reduced to five days total. Training management stood by and allowed the accountants to make this decision to save money on hotels. Our new hires paid the price and only after failed orals was the decision reversed and only because the failures were costing the company more money.
Fact: our simulators have been outsourced to Pan Am virtually since Allegiant moved to Las Vegas. It goes without saying that it doesn't get any worse in terms of quality and reliability. Cost was a known driver that negatively affected our training.
Fact: many of our in-house instructors were replaced by contract instructors to save money. Some were good, some were terrible, but in both cases they were trained by the company and turnover has been very high. Poor standardization and knowledge has been an issue and the quality of our training has suffered.
Training is a cost, not a revenue-generator, which means it will be treated like everything else to meet at the bare minimum standard. Our pilots pay the price while cost savings accumulate and the investor profits.