Originally Posted by
DonConsult67
Five (5) months is on the "accelerated" program, assuming all goes according to plan. We are hearing from our referrals it ranges from the extremely rare 4 months to as long as 6 months, the latter hearing the same old excuses ~ the sims are down, instructors aren't available, re-tests, and upgrades.
Regardless, it's the same *******show it's always been, the training "department" is a mismanaged and inconsistent cluster-f, and the entire hiring/training/scheduling process remains inefficient.
What do you expect from the same personnel with the same anti-pilot attitude (???)...although "management" has changed in a never-ending musical chair game, the low-level, 8th-grade educated, decision-makers, who viciously guard their fiefdoms are still jerking everyone around.
Your timing sounds about right. 4 to 6 months from doh to IOE. The biggest complaint from Ejet new hires observing in my jump seat that I hear is why do they send these new hires to systems and FPT to just have them sit for a couple of months before their oral and sims. Many of them tell me they had forgotten everything from FPT by the time they get to the SIMs.
I guess I have never encountered an anti-pilot attitude except for top management at Mesa. Some of the instructors shouldn’t be instructing because they don’t know how to. Also, from what I see of new FO’s, some of these guys must be barely making it through the SIMs and IOE.