Originally Posted by
gringo
Everything. Simply put, our training program isn't designed for low-time pilots with minimal jet experience. It's designed for a time when our minimums were 4000 + 500TPIC.
Too much information in too short of a time with minimal time to understand and correlate it all.
Is it passable? Clearly. But the number of pink slips issued has risen dramatically the last number of months.
Our training program isn't designed for low experience pilots. There's not much handholding here. The Jurinal Cake might want us to think that Spirit is really just a big regional flying Airbuses, but our training program isn't geared for that level of experience.
Management does not care. Spirit cares for the new hires as much as they care for us line pilots. They just keep bringing them in with the hopes of them passing, if they don't they say "sorry" and move on. It makes sense to why they've increased the hiring numbers, to account for the failures they know are coming. For all that are considering coming here, think long and hard about what you are about to do. Seriously ask yourself if you are really qualified to attempt this kind of training environment and what will happen if you dont make it through. I would hate to explain an training failure to a company that I really wanted to work for.