Maybe, it is a lack of confidence in their own skills. Or, maybe, it IS our training.....

I haven’t asked my buddies over at Envoy, but my buddy at SkyWest tells me they give a lot more sim sessions before you are sent to IOE than we do.

We give 9 training sims and then a checkride, and one LOFT. If I recall what he said, SkyWest has 14 training sim sessions, with 9 preparing you for a checkride, a checkride, and then 4 LOFTS. LOFTS is where they teach the stuff one encounters on the line: such as PRM approaches, RA resolution maneuvers, windshear, CAT II, Special Single Engine departure procedures, etc. Their new hires,’same type upgrades, and type to type pilots go through all the same training. They try to pair Captains with FO’s so they get 15 four hour sessions in the appropriate seat.

All the same stuff we cram into our first 9 lessons with FO’s paired with FO’s and CA’s paired with CA’s. So, a pilot really only gets 18 hours of seat appropriate training compared with 60 hours at SkyWest.

No wonder we can’t master a CAT II on the Ejet.