Originally Posted by
Albief15
The cockpit app available for the iPad, while no substitute for a live FTD, is a nice product.
The program needs some money, however. A cockpit trainer would be huge. Enough sim time to not do initial training at 0400 with a 0200 brief. And the lack of a 767 sim is just amazing to me. There is a big difference between "legal", "effective", and "excellent". I thought the training in the MD11 was excellent across the board when I did it in 2008. I'd like a similar standard of excellence (or better) in the 75/76. The people are outstanding, but they need more resources…yesterday.
Agreed, MD-11 had more resources than I could use even back in 2002. The 75/76 program is being held together with "high speed tape" and "bailer twine". The simfinity stuff is great but there is no substitute for pushing the actual buttons. Pro instructors are coming in on their days off and working after hours to help get students through, I can't believe what some of these guys are doing to help off the clock. We had a Pro event from 7:30am until 1:30pm then flipped to a 2am show for a 4-8am event.....12hrs off
to go over the last event, study for the next, and "Rest". It was a total waste of time.