Originally Posted by
WesternSkies
My buddy was getting pretty excited talking about how bad the 175 program is right now.
I don't remember everything he said but mostly it seemed that the 175 training department is screwing up in about every way possible.
Examples like handing out the wrong forms and releases/clr then making the students redue their 1/2 days work. Something about the computer in the class room always crashing leaving the subject matter disjointed. Also apparently instructors were not always correct even on callouts.
I asked if he let them have it in the class eval, to which he said no because the evals got turned in to the instructor one at a time. Haha
It seems to echo what was relayed to me.
Anyone who is an ERJ person should be able to follow this.
Apparently this class was initially (ground, matrix and FTD) shown how to operate 27.1. The only problem is the sims were 25.5. Instructors realized this was a mistake as later classes were taught 25.5 from the get go. I guess the matrix and FTD machines were unreliable, often times spending half a session restarting and setting up again. The syllabus was incomplete and skipped areas, with extra items being added to the MV that crews had never had the opportunity to train on. Many of the matrix and FTD instructors are very green as FO's, much less instructors. Non-standard, immature, constantly bragging about how many credit hours they were racking up is what I had heard. "FTD was a tremendous waste of time and resources" was the direct quote from a senior captain making the transition, one of the few who passed everything.... Hopefully it's a temporary thing because SKW training is better than this.