Originally Posted by
NK Bumble Bee
Indeed it can be valuable for the instructor to have that freedom based on their assessment of the students. The problem I see with this technique at Spirit is the way training is scheduled with potentially not having the same instructor more than once. My new hire was 5 years ago and we had a different instructor every session until sim and same for upgrade 2 years ago. Impossible for, and not fair to an instructor to have to try and recognize the student needs based on a first glance.
the instructors recognize this and are actively trying to change it. The instructors are awesome. The couple of guys that failed the ride in my class - the "25%" weren't young guys who did a year in a jet and got on with spirit, they were seasoned guys, and whether it was just a stupid mistake they made or maybe didn't understand the system, i don't think their failure was all of spirits fault for hiring them or all of the training departments fault or even all their fault, like anything else it is a combination of things, and each situation is different. but the statistics I gave for my class might be a little misleading from the numbers, i just want to say they weren't "brand new young guys with no experience"