Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
If you flew at busy airports and in busy airspace in a 172 it does prepare you. If you flew around a corn field then no. It’s an about speed and complexity. Being able to process a complex instruction quickly enables you to read it back quickly and usually correctly.
Descend via didn’t exist when I started btw but that has actually made it easier bc less comms are required.
it’s when you’re on the ground at busy airports or on departure or approach and/or with weather the newbies are really struggling like all they did was fly at an uncontrolled field for 1500hrs or worse they lied and don’t actually have 1500hrs.
I was based in EWR as my first airline job and while the jet was a big jump I can say without a doubt day one was not an issue with the radio. Knowing who to talk to when took maybe a day but what and how to say the words wasn’t. That shouldn’t have to be taught at 121 and yes I can say it with a straight face
SoFloFlyer and Justabusdriver are FOs who are actively trying to leave NK, it seems. So their perspectives vs those of us seeing the difficulties on the line with a lot of the new hires, differ. If their biggest gripe are CAs who can’t connect to our inflight internet (not sure why anyone is trying to connect), but if that’s your current gripe, lucky you.
But there is a common theme on this subject; FOs hired in the last year or so are the ones saying “help the guys, it’s not a big deal” and CAs are the ones saying “it gets tiresome.”
Easy to just say “help them out, it’s not a big deal,” but I know I sure feel like single pilot without backup more now than ever before, that usually isn’t a great thing in this profession. It isn’t they (new FOs) don’t want to help, 99% do, it’s they don’t have the foundation to be much of a help. I want to speak fluent French when I go to Europe, but 2 years in high school only gets me so far.
Again, the guys we hire have been very nice guys to work with; but man has it become a butt kicking dealing with NKs lack of everything out on the line, compounded by our new lessened hiring requirements.