Originally Posted by
OceanCrosser
You are correct, there is a need to provide a higher duty for the care and safety of our passengers, our crew and others.
This is why we have a:
1) medical exam every 6 months,
2) we have recurrent training in a simulator at as often as every 6 months,
3) we are required to have quarterly continuing education and
4) we have line checks every 24 months.
So it appears we are constantly being reviewed for our performance both technically as well as cognitively. Sounds like a pretty good program.
All the best,
OC
And we have
1) Medical exams every 6 months
2) Recurrent training once a year
3) Line checks once a year
4) A Fitness For Duty program
And yet, a 74 year old narcoleptic without a shred of intellectual honesty or self-awareness was allowed to keep flying (and sleeping in the cockpit), year after year, despite having been through ALL of the above.
And he's not the outlier. The 70+, sharp-as-a-tack, wonderpilot is the outlier.