Originally Posted by
captainv
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.
This is a fact! The 747 program is all about checking and inflating the egos of the CA check airmen. There are however a few FO instructors that are trying very hard to teach, but unfortunately the program was not written to be a good or even close to a teaching course.
The 767 is an excellent teaching program that closely follows most best practices of great airline training courses.
Literally, its like night and day.