Originally Posted by
Nevjets
Is there a training review board that has at least one pilot representative on it? A TRB is standard at all union airlines. There are almost always extenuating circumstances (the other side of those stories). Anyone that's been on property for at least one year deserves to have their issues heard before a TRB.
It takes work to get fired from this place. A failure in training won't do it. You get two attempts at each seat. If you fail, you go back to your previous seat. After a year you can try again. If you fail again, you go back to your previous seat and cannot bid for that seat again. We had some Brasilia Captains fail the CRJ twice and then failed the ERJ. A few got caught short when the Brasilia was retired and they had less than a year to retirement. The company won't send anyone to training with less than a year left, so they were forced to retire.
One very senior Brasilia Captain who failed transition to the CRJ twice and the ERJ once was kept on in an administrative role until he turned 65. Another was at about 150 hours of IOE in the ERJ and still not getting it, they offered to have him downgrade to ERJ FO for a year and then attempt it again. He elected to retire early.
If you get fired from this place, you've earned it.