Originally Posted by
wndriver
The management who spoke in the recurrent said some have less than 1800 hours and no turbine time. They think if the kids pass the training, they’re as good as a pilot with a few years at regional. We had been told that they were going to get experience at partner airlines, but that’s not always true. It’s very concerning.
Its very possible to train pilot with those credentials into safe professional pilots, the regionals do it because they’ve tailored their training to that demographic through AQP.
The problem here is 1) we don’t have AQP 2) our ideas of tailoring training is to use a larger fire hose in the same footprint, and then get frustrated that they’re not getting it.
One thing for sure, when SWA does get AQP they’ll brag that they’re cutting edge even though they’re last to do it, just like the expanded envelope training we started a few years ago when the regionals had already been doing it for years.