Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
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
It's not that they can't but that they don't know how to succeed in anything other than a program that starts 30 minutes late, has 45 minutes of class with 30 minute coffee breaks, guys walking out of class non-stop to field calls, on the fly made up flows, shorts and T-shirts, half hour arguments about how 'that's not how we did it in the XXX', and systems training that revolves around chicken fried steak Thursday.
I can tell you that while the FAA 'approves' of all the above Transport Canada doesn't tolerate this kind of kindergarten crap and holds their guys to much higher standards. TC even knows how to properly train stalls in a jet. But that's a different story.
If a corporate background guy is considering NK you need an honest self-assessment of if you will put in the effort to get through training. Just about any idiot can pull back and make the houses get little. Are you willing, right or wrong, to do it our way, with our flows, and with our calls?