Originally Posted by
AirBat
Doesn't look like bypassers went too deep. This job isn't that difficult so if you've been on property for 1000 hrs and haven't figured it out, well, that's on you. Training department will determine who "belongs" in that seat and who doesn't.
7/16/15 hire for the most junior spot. Probably on the line for 11 months and knows the airplane by now. Don't see the problem, far better than the guys upgrading with 150 hrs in the plane not so long ago.
It's not about time in the airplane, it's about experience. 1000hrs of 121 isn't 1000hrs of experience. Each award I see 2-3 if not more, that have no business being a captain. They barely make it as FO's. So many FO's just sit on their hands and do not make any effort to try to prepare themselves for what's to come. Buffalo crash captain had way more than 1500TT and way more than 1000 121 time and look what happened to them. Anyone can prepare for training, get gouges, etc. Apparently we have a lot of people showing up to 12mo unprepared and unable to pass. I don't disagree that people upgraded with little time in the airplane, but at some companies people upgrade into an airplane that they've never flown. You can't study for all of the quick things that happen on the line.