Originally Posted by
MasterOfPuppets
so I’ll give you an example. A good friend of mine was a 737 PI. He elected to take a CA bid in DEN on the 737. He went to training in FEB and got out just befor the shutdown. He is now facing 737 FO reserve in DEN. I haven’t heard from him in a while but I would not be surprised to see him come back. So he is out of TK for 6 months and been on the same plane and was an instructor on the same plane. He most likely needs a QC and he’s good to go.
However just like everything else this is unprecedented so we have to build then get approval from the FAA.
A quick job like this would ONLY work for an IE who is coming back to the same fleet AND was only gone for so long think RQ2/3.
you can’t get a new instructor or a current instructor going to a new fleet done that quick.
To add to this... Our current procedure (at least on the 737) for qualifying a new instructor who is already current on the fleet goes well above and beyond what is required by AQP. The AQP guidelines are fairly minimal for someone to get started teaching procedures and maneuvers. After teaching awhile, a new instructor get Qual’ed to do LOFTs and MVs.... So for someone returning to the building on the same fleet likely wouldn’t even need a “short course” to be developed for the initial qualification. They could just simply do the minimum required by AQP or in the case of your friend, possibly just a QC.