Originally Posted by
kevin18
I mean, it’s easy to go quote a POH when you’ve got it there. My overall point here is that training didn’t cover that. The APD knows what is covered in training. Any APD on any day can use little things to throw people off. When you look at the percentages of failures from one group to the rest of the testing population there are significant deviations. These differences do not occur in other companies.
The bust is on me, never said it wasn’t. It was the first time I ever hooked anything or had to do a retrain after over 100 training flights through multiple syllabi. Still think the first strike is hogwash, and yeah, my cadence will keep me from pulling engines that shouldn’t be in the air. It has kept me from making mistakes during emergencies that I’ve had to deal with through a 15 year aviation career.
I’m in a much better place had I been allowed to recheck. That wasn’t an option, and frankly, I’m happy it wasn’t.[/QUOTE]
There are zero courses in the civilian world that are going to cover 100% of the iterations of failure modes that you could see in an aircraft, and I guess its the APD's fault for assuming you had actually read the POH section 4 enough to respond to things that looked slightly different from what you saw in training.
And yes, you specifically isolated that bust from the other two you said were your fault:
My opinion, like I said, I own the other two strikes, completely my fault. That first one though was hogwash.
Sorry you felt put upon, but it appears you have done enough research about the failure rates among different populations of pilots across the regionals to (at least internally) not have to shoulder the blame for your bust. I'm sure that kind of attitude will serve you well on your next interview.
Enjoy your career.