Originally Posted by
PossibleDeviation
Out of date? I am going to have to disagree with you on that.
There are no "paper tiger" sessions anymore so I don't even know what portion of training you are referencing. Indoc/CPT is taught by an FOI that yes, is typed in the airplane, but they've never flown the "AIRPLANE" as I previously said; only the sim and they have NEVER flown the line and they do struggle to walk you through a 121 flight because they've never done it.....
After CPT the training does get better as they are active line pilots. But for the first few weeks of training the knowledge of line operations is weak. Don't get me wrong, if they don't know something they will work hard to track down the correct answer for you but if we are going to be training more and more pilots where this is their first 121 job.... the training will need to change.
We have 5 sims now. Been that way for awhile. By paper Tiger I was referencing the touch screen trainers or whatever they’re called now. The point remains. You’re just trying to find buttons and press them when you should. The MCDU’s are only partially functional in the sims. Somehow it works out.
Again, the 121 stuff is overblown. It’s not hard. We’re not running starships around the galaxy.