Thread: Selected into JetBlue's ab initio program
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Old 04-17-2016 | 08:17 PM
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grim04
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Originally Posted by UpAndAway
Your solution to the industry expectation that those FO seats at Regionals are diminishing. Then what happens? Who will the Majors recruit then? If the rest of the economy is any indication, your future FO's will be from China. FO pay at the Regionals is perhaps the biggest obstacle, I agree.

The second broken aspect is the Regional/Major divide. If you're not experienced enough to be a FO of an E190 at JetBlue at 1,500, then you're not experienced to be a FO a SkyWest CRJ at 1,500. The basis of your argument cannot seriously be "Well, the Regionals are an experience building stepping stone so it's okay". The American public deserve better. I have no doubt you build valuable experience at the Regionals, but this whole system only exists to save shareholders money, not to train pilots for the Majors.



You are clearly not reading what I'm typing. I have repeatedly said I don't think any graduate from an ab-initio program should get a slot from the Majors ahead of a more experienced and qualified pilot.



You are red-herring the hell out of my posts. Only I'm not putting down Regional pilots, because I didn't say that. I literally had to re-read my posts to verify I didn't say those things. I never said you get the same experience going directly to the majors. I never said you get the same experience after flying a 172. I merely asked, for example, why you're comfortable with someone flight instructing in a 172 (or whatever), and then piloting a CRJ at a Regional at 1,500. Why is that okay to you?




I seriously have no idea how that could quite possibly be your reaction to his post.

But that's exactly what your saying. Your wanting to go into this program and you will come out with only limited experience training basic maneuvers to students. That's not experience. The flying public deserves better? How are they getting better if your in the right seat of a major? They aren't. Piloting an RJ in the left seat with 1500 of a smaller plane is a hell of a lot easier to handle than you behind the controls of a 100 to 200 seat airplane? Let's take an example. The Colgan flight that crashed in buffalo. The captain should not have been a captain and the FO had limited experience. Unfortunately the took souls with them. But only a few. Are you suggesting that it would have been the same if they were in a 737? With a 130 on board no. I can guarantee you that experience would have prevented that entire thing. With the icing the weather not raising the flaps that actually was giving the aircraft the only lift it had left. That's the experience that you can't get flying a 172 and unfortunately have to get at the regionals. Why don't nascar drivers start out in daytona and have to start on go karts? Because they learn the nuances of driving. Anticipation reaction things a book and a half asked teacher can't teach you.
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