Originally Posted by
Aero1900
It just hasn't been a priority. When the company was bankrupt and under Republic, they just didn't invest in the change. The new management doesn't care at all, so we will keep doing what we've been doing. That's not a bad thing. I think our training dept is very good. Our new hire pass rate is very good. I don't believe that AQP is necessarily any better. I've spoken with the guy at the FAA who is in charge of AQP, and he didn't seem to think it's really any better than the way Frontier does it.
Anyone know how much less training Spirit provides than us? 5 FTD and 9 sims
*editorial comment*
Having done both the "Old school" PC/PT training and AQP, I'll state unequivocally that AQP is hands down a better method of training and I hope we make the effort to switch sooner rather than later. Even on my type rides I felt much less pressure and that I was still learning as much as I was being checked.
That said, our training is "gentlemanly" as others have said. Put in the effort and barring extraneous circumstances you'll do fine and be prepared for ioe.