Originally Posted by
Macjet
Actually, he/she is correct. I am an instructor at one the large school houses and a pilot at Spirit. There is a huge difference between customers and employees in training. A vast, vast majority of our clients do not take the training seriously, are there for a mini-vacation, and if it were an airline program I would bet 75% or them couldn't pass it. The quality of the client coming through for initial training right now is worrisome.
Id like to reiterate that it’s not all corporate pilots but the above is straight from someone that is allegedly currently training corporate pilots.
Doesn’t anyone remember not so long ago Spirit rarely hired corporate pilots? Company reps would flat out tell them at the job fairs that their chances of getting an interview were slim.
I believe the new hire program is severely lacking and I’m not trying to insult any singular pilot that might have come from corporate because we all know must of us would suck it up big time if we went from 121 to corporate. All I am saying is that corporate pilots have historically posed a more risky hire and that is fact. It’s not an insult to anyone’s personal background