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Old 04-18-2018, 09:53 AM
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JohnBurke
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I recently heard a new hire struggle to figure out the cockpit prep flow. A hand-out had been given which showed the flow. The handout was on paper, an older composite material made from damaged fauna, which uses ink (a colored medium which stains the flattened wooden fiber sheets); this handout showed the flows step by step.

The new hire complained bitterly that this wasn't fair, that the company owed him a cockpit procedures trainer that lit up in steps to show him where his hand should go, one item at a time.

I heard a lot of millenial-style whining, the complete picture of which stopped just shy of "please take this ground school for me and notify me when it's done."

"I hear we actually have to go outside the airplane and walk around it. What's up with that?"

"We don't fly anywhere dangerous, do we?"

"This isn't fair. The autopilot didn't engage when I told it to."

"But on the RJ we had...[fill in the blank].

"Can I take my surfboard on trips?"

"The simulator works just like xbox."
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