Originally Posted by snackysmores

I believe there was a large upswing in Q400 fails when the company switched to their Brad Lambert approved SuperSaver(tm) CBT course they just tossed at the new hires and shortened the ground school to 4 DAYS. But look at the savings!

The training department was vehemently opposed to it but was told to go pound sand by management. They are an absolute group of rock stars with decades of experience on the dash8 (all models) and they were effectively hamstrung overnight.

In combination with that, we drastically lowered our hiring standards and would literally take anyone who was qualified on paper. We probably still do. "Just fill classes" were the orders given by BL. Well, some of the people we've hired can't even use an iPad correctly. The Q400 program at Horizon Air is the most challenging airplane and flight operation an airline pilot could ever experience in their career, and we threw these poor b@stards into the sea with cement shoes and expected them to tread water in a very short amount of time.

Another "perfect storm" summoned and facilitated by corporate greed.

The next perfect storm? Street captains on the Q400 with no experience paired with a new hire and flying on a really bad winter day.