Originally Posted by
Hedley
We have far more widebodies than our competitors and many come here because of that. It’s a desirable position and a pretty sweet gig. Many of us have been captains before and would rather enjoy the good life flying 1 leg to Europe, nice layover, and one leg home. Being a captain going forward is also going to require more work as the experience of our applicants goes down. We need to adjust our training to compensate for the new world that we live in. A low experience captain paired with a low experience new hire isn’t something that we’ve ever dealt with. Perhaps it’s time to increase the training footprint and intensity.
Not until I'm done, please.
In all seriousness, I think this is a good comment and is a problem being faced everywhere across the industry. As a new CA at my last airline, I was working, in some cases, with people who 3 months prior were flying C172s at rural, uncontrolled airports and were on their first flight off IOE. Still felt a lot like IOE. That's not a comment about them or their skills at all, we've all been new at this once upon a time. But you're right that the training philosophy now that people are expected to just
know this stuff is probably not realistic anymore.