Originally Posted by
Herkflyr
Did you go to the 330 from the 320? I hope/plan to do that myself within the next few years (I'm currently on the 320). I can't imagine that the transition would be that difficult. Going from any other aircraft other than the 320, I can appreciate that you would need all the sims you can take.
No, I didn't come from the 320 to the 330. My feeling was that Delta inherited the NWA 330 program, which was probably fine when taught after a lengthy in-classroom ground school. Well, Delta changed that to self-study so you don't get as much knowledge.
Then, over the years, the FAA requires airlines to add this or that to the sim training. So the company thought, "Ok, we'll shove that in this sim lesson because we have 10 extra minutes here. And put that over there because there is 15 minutes free."
In the end, an overloaded, out of sequence training program that wasn't done very well. I haven't run into a 330 pilot that thought it was a decent training program. I've been through half a dozen long courses in my career (here and elsewhere) and this was by far the worse.