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TransWorld
Is that significant?
To what do you primarily attribute it? Lesser training? Bad check airmen? Poor selection criteria? Worse applicants? Or what?
Please do not say some of all. That is not helpful.
PSA has a lot of triggers, flows and calls. SA and energy mgmt are difficult for any student learning their first jet.
Usually a new hire has good triggers, flows and calls, but poor SA and energy mgmt. or they’re the opposite, they have good SA and Energy management, but drop triggers flows and calls.
Passing a check ride requires a mediocre amount of both. When the sim comes off motion they know it was a clean kill and they should have unsated, they’ll later talk to another student who was mediocre and didn’t unsat and that recalibrates them into thinking they should have passed.
The next move is to blame training department for not teaching energy management.
It’s a culture of students wanting to train to a gouge, things like “proper decent planning” are viewed as elective reading and “not on the test” as route memory required knowledge.
When they’re in the sim they want a gouge and scripted ride and become task saturated with the mildest changes.
An APD will give them a mild change for the sole purpose to observe energy management and SA and if they had read that “elective decent planning” their SA and energy management would be better and they would not drop triggers flows and calls.
Its also, literally whining like, “I got a hung start in training, and a hot start for checking, so unfair”
We’re you told to read about start malfunctions, and did you get a hot start in training in Dayton on the ground proficiency trainers?
They really believe they need full motion sim time for every start malfunction, and training on a proficiency trainer is worthless and doesn’t count. Also checking on anything not covered 24 hours prior for recency is a dirty move.
They are spoon fed in training, and on checking the bowl and spoon are put on the high chair in front of them. They have to now pick up the spoon and fed themselves and it’s just way different and some would rather sit there and cry.
I would bet my paycheck this clown spent more hours building a website to cry than he did studying for his career.
The 2 out of ten that fail are the same 2 that show up to recurrent and their first question is can they leave early for their commute, and their second question is this non-jeopardy or do I really need to pay attention.