Originally Posted by
DarkSideMoon
How many things seen is enough? We’re not flying DC-9’s in a non radar environment. Follow the FOM/FM and there really isn’t a ton of room for errors that will get you killed or violated. Maybe it’ll result in an embarrassing mistake here or there (IE an unneeded cx or divert). We have medlink, dispatchers that actually know what they’re doing, FODM, well written/thought out procedures. I saw more **** in 10 hours in the left seat at a regional where you have 0 support from the company, lackluster at best manuals/procedures, dispatchers actively trying to kill you, pilot pushing, etc. than I do in a year here.
The kids are going to be ok. We have excellent training and excellent LCP’s/IE’s.
and, again, we were already having people upgrade at one year and off probation. I’d rather they have the extra hours of “babysitting” than sleep 500 hours EWR-DEL and then hop in the left seat of an Airbus. Look at how “experience” helped with some of our high profile oopsies lately….
Except the "kids" now are coming with only ~500 hours at the regionals. So with 500 hours here they are launching as Captain with another 500 hour 23 year old, into Bogota, across the pond to OGG, Kalispell, etc. in a 900ER. There's only so much IE's can teach in the sims and they are constrained by the syllabus. And the LCPs can be stuck with October/April OE's with not a cloud or snowflake in sight.