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Old 10-19-2017 | 12:01 PM
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Originally Posted by TheDudeabide
I’m tired of hearing about inexperienced new hires or not being prepared when you arrive. I’m not going to give away too much about myself on here. But I’m not. 2k pilot. I have way more than that in 121 PIC. Point is, you’ll receive an email saying to log in and begin doing the CBT and even suggests an order. That’s the emphasis they send out. I know to learn the memory items limitations. As for flows, without the manuals, where do I get that? I have friends here and was able to get a jump on it, kind of. But there are things or obligations that some need to some people have to meet before they can show up to training and can’t devote a full week or two before hand. When you arrive at trading and you’re told,” forget the CBT’s, concetrait in flows. Then different instructors teach different, sometimes conflicting information. If you are unfortunate enough to be paired with a weak sim partner, with the ****ty instruction, it is a recipe for failure. I do f care how hot shtt you think you are. It’s a mine field to navigate on your own. This “training” program is the worst I’ve seen. I do take my responsibility for my short comings. But it isn’t all me, or this wouldn’t be the first problem I’ve had in training. Quit bragging about how this is a “real” airline and operate it like one. Stop throwing a pile of books and useless “study sheets” ( that the examiners hate btw) and saying, learn all of this in 4 weeks and prepare for 4 sims, that you seat swap in and suck it up. Seriously, 8 hours in the left seat, part of which is wasted on Bogata and crap you won’t see on the checkride. Give me a break. The problem isn’t all me
I buy this. My new hire training was a less than optimal experience because the only constant we had in the paper tiger/CPT/touch screen trainer portion was an "instructor in training" who in fact did (or at least tried to do) most of the training while we were officially being trained by a revolving door of 6 different instructors who spent as much time trying to instruct him as they did us.

IMO the people who make it through the training program do so in spite of it, not because of it. Personal responsibility is of course a big part of successfully completing any training but our current washout rate would seem to be the result of a program that relies heavily on the students and even more so the instructors going above and beyond to make it work. It might work with students who bring significant previous experience with them but 2000TT/one year in the right seat of an RJ new hires lay the weaknesses of the program bare.
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