I have seen the whole gamut of training....2 weeks of ground school with an FAA oral that started with...”You are an air molecule that gets sucked into an engine, take me through the airways and all the possible routing through the packs, what you can power etc”..... at the time I thought this is dumber than dirt.

Now the systems is so dumbed down you know next to nothing when you finish.

I’ll take the new way....not because it is easier, but because they pay us to be pilots in the air and on the ground....NOT MECHANICS. The FAA procedures have changed and now you have to bring dispatch/Mx into the loop(on the ground). They want you to follow the checklists/ECAM actions...not trouble shoot. So guys that “think” they understand systems knowledge and John Wayne it, invariably get themselves into trouble....... if you have a no sh!!ter...they expect you to be a pilot..ie stall....break the stall...flock of birds over the Hudson?....do some of that pilot shiznit.

If you want more info...that’s up to you...nobody is stopping you for increased knowledge...but it’s up to you. We are pilots...not test pilots! On another thread they were talking about how guys don’t even want to watch the e-briefs...such is life. Over-achiever/underachiever? You get to decide.

JMHO

Now back to the regular scheduled program....CLASS DROPS