Originally Posted by captainv

For the record, he wasn't fired. (He voluntarily chose to return to line flying, in lieu of...) And he didn't get in trouble for what he might have said to the student after his bust. He got in trouble because he was giving rides that did not fall within PTS standards. Period. And it was pretty much isolated to that one class. I think our busts rates are otherwise uniform, but the training guys would know for sure.

But there absolutely is a wide, wide gap between how we train on the 747 and the 767. The 747 side was, to me, all evaluation and checking. You were given the basics in class, but had to do much if not all of the heavy lifting outside of class. The 767 started out like that when we were at Boeing, but changed once we got our own instructors. It's more of a here's what you need to know to be safe out there instead of a punitive, stump-the-dummy, build the airplane thing.