Originally Posted by
NightIP
It's not all about passing training. Stick and rudder, flying ILSs, V1 cuts, etc. checks the box for about 10% of what we do here.
What Atlas really has trouble with is throwing people into international/oceanic world with very little training, expecting line captains to provide OJT. If you're paired up with new-hires fresh off OE, good luck feeling comfortable taking a break on a crossing.
It's not the new-hire's fault, mind you; it's the Atlas training program that skims over so much of the meat and potatoes of what we do here, hoping they'll pick it up once on line. Very unfair for everyone involved, trust me.
Agreed. So what is the remedy? I don't think it is so much the training centers fault per se but rather that we don't have verbiage in our contract that allows for IRO lines for example. It is not that Atlas training "skims" but rather our contract is so hollow Atlas is wiling to take the risk to put green on green pairing wherever that may be. Because our contract is so outdated it doesn't set a mandate to put experience on high risk routes. In other words, our feeble contract doesn't even define "high risk routes".