Originally Posted by
khergan
Just got out of the MC-12 course and feedback from IPs is that new students who come through the CAE course are not as well prepared as the students who came from Flight Safety. That's obviously anecdotal feedback, but they get less overall time, so it may be true.
I know a guy who knows a guy (for real, though, no kidding) who took the job with CAE at Dothan. He started in January, and by Feb he was with students. He didn't even get a 'how to work the sim' spin-up. So, I can see how this could be true.