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...
...Some of the instructors shouldn’t be instructing because they don’t know how to.
Same as we are hearing. Scheduling is a major obstacle and is truly screwed up. Training is rushing new hires thru each training component so they can advertise a "shorter training time" and comply with their FAA approved "program".
This was precipitated by several late-2017 new hires completing Oral Exams only to have them lapse because of the 60-day rule, with a few new hires having to re-do Orals 3 and 4 times.
But fixing the front end only fouls up the back end, yet Mesa is simply too dumb to connect these dots. It's all touted as "someone else's fault".
Sending them home ~ because Mesa has stopped paying local hotels for trainee down time ~ has not worked to keep skills and knowledge up-to-par so the deterioration is the Company's own fault. This is exacerbated by the fact none of the material covered in FPT is made available on an iPad App or PC-based program [like the Aerosim or L-3 flyable flight simulator programs, virtual flight deck, and FMS trainer], and Mesa is too cheap to purchase even short-term licenses for new hires to use those programs during self-study.
As for the calibre of instructors, 'nuff said. Simply because a pilot sits well in the left seat of an airliner does not automatically sit well in front of a class. The use of part-time instructors on a musical-chair basis between instructing and line flying has never worked, does not work, and will never work. Another lesson Mesa fails to learn, over and over again.