Originally Posted by Std Deviation

I will offer a comment about CRM/TEM training (or lack thereof) which should encompass leadership skills. My perspective is that of graduate degree in psychology, CRM/Human Factors program manager for FlightSafety International (worldwide) for 6 years, NTSB academy graduate, delivered 150+ CRM workshops face to face for corporate flight departments, keynote safety standdown speaker for a couple of Fortune 20 flight departments, NBAA regional speaker, 50 + articles published in 5 different aviation magazines, and a successful curriculum development company on the side with corporate flight dept clients.

I have no idea what’s being taught at “Leading Edge” but the CRM training I received here as an FO is about a 2/10. At FSI our course was 16 hours face to face (not CBT learning which is useless for CRM). In reality it was 20 hours of material crammed into 16 - not death by PowerPoint. In a couple years here I’ve had a captain deliberately bust minimums on an approach in solid IMC, another that would consistently violate SOPs because he’s constantly in a rush to save 2 minutes getting to an already backed up runway, and one that wanted to go from JFK to SMF with the A320 landing fuel - prior to takeoff - showing 3.9 (clearly showing yellow). Because we were “going to make up fuel enroute.”

Soon we will have an entire generation of pilots that didn’t slog through flight instruction, corporate, freight, or the regionals but instead got on some accelerated fast track to the left seat. We are very, very close to an undesirable event here. Truth be told, we’ve been lucky already.

I haven’t even talked about our international procedures training...