Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
look y’all need to ease up on Baseball a little. He is correct more than a lot of you know. Training is going to be very difficult for a lot of people. A huge amount of our pilots haven’t been through a Qual course in a decade plus. Many won’t be able to get the system of the 737 figured out because of lack of EICAS, others have never seen an Airbus. The pilots that will be sticking around haven’t thought about a new airplane and how to study in a very long time.
this will cause additional strain on the training department due to retrains and validation failures. It will put a strain on IOE as some may need more trips.
I know I painted with a broad brush and Iv seen many 60+ rockstars come through Qual Training. But the struggle will be real for these pilots. Just like our junior our stressed about furlough the pilots that will be staying could be stressed about training. I’m not one for safe spaces and hugs but we shouldn’t tell them to suck it up just because we will be on furlough.
I'm sure he didn't mean any harm but it's amazingly tone deaf to talk about how difficult training might be when your audience contains thousands of pilots who may be out of a job in less than 5 months. If you're 60 and you're afraid you may struggle in training, maybe push your MEC to have the company offer early retirement to younger pilots. Saves old dudes from scary training events and saves more junior guys from hitting the streets. Win win.