Originally Posted by ZapBrannigan

I’m not trying to sound anti military. I honestly believe that classes in airline history and airline labor relations should be required prior to attending Indoc at any major airline. As a profession we need to do a better job of learning from our collective history. Those would benefit ANYONE who is new to the profession regardless of their background. The reality is that the generation who lived through turboprops, pay for training, Gulfstream international type schemes (pay to sit in the right seat), B scales, is getting old. The young folks joining the company now may have taken their first flying lessons POST 9/11!!! They may never have flown anything with steam gauges. They may never have flown an airliner without an autopilot or FMS. They may not know the history of the RJ and why it was so damaging to our profession.

Airline pilots do a poor job of indoctrinating our young because we just assume they did the same thing to get here that we did. Well, it should come as no surprise that none of our new hires these days flew cancelled checks in clapped out Barons in the middle of the night. Times change and with them so do perceptions. We all view this job through the lens of our own past experience. We have to figure out a way to share that history with our new hires without sounding like we’re preaching to them about the glory days.