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World Travel
Yes there has been changes. Number of sim instructors being sent back to the line, massive amount of scheduled sim time in PHX being cancelled and new hires being let go. Mesa is back up to their same old tricks again. Be careful everyone. There has been a number of failures, "suspicious" failures on both E side and C side. Guys failing out of everything from FPT to the checkride then getting training review board and getting terminated, no choice to resign. A certain individual in management told a guy who did not fail a single written, or unsat a sim but his sim partner did was terminated for not working as a team. A Chief pilot told him that this was coming from a pay grade much higher than his, that he was truly sorry but he had no choice.
Even guys coming in for upgrades are being failed as well as aqp, recurrent and proficiency checks. These are the facts, and hope it helps someone.
I can't imagine Mesa is failing guys out of initial unless they're terrible pilots, or they have a serious attitude problem. That doesn't make sense. Captain upgrade is a different story. I always thought it kinda scary that guys are flying the line for a year or so on the CRJ and then upgrading on the 175. And most of those guys had never flown 121 before getting hired at Mesa. Not saying it can't be done, but that's biting off a whole lot.