Originally Posted by
FangsF15
I hope you are right. But something has changed very recently.
I don’t buy the argument that the training department is currently manned for 2300 students and only now is realizing they are overstaffed for 1000-1200, and that’s all this is. 1000+ has been semi-officially published for 6 months, at least, and would have been planned for already. No, this recent announcement has caused much consternation in the SLI ranks, and is a surprise to them. Let’s not forget, some DPS instructors are losing their jobs completely.
It may well not be as low as 300 (and again, I’ve tried to say each time that’s a dubious rumor that needs corroboration, and hesitated to use the actual number until other discussion seemed to bolster it generally). But again, this week’s announcement is much more consistent with something in that ballpark than in 1200. The truth may (probably) lies in the middle.
Any actual SLI’s here have any info they can pass on?
Regardless, Flt Ops needs to make an announcement asap.
The writing was on the wall for SLIs for a long time. CTCs reported overmanning for quite a few months, and offered plans how to mitigate without having to cut. That included significantly higher rotations to the line (which causes loss of instructor proficiency), artificiality limiting the number of extra duty periods to be picked up, among other things. Unfortunately those mitigations appear to not have been enough. The hiring frenzy of the past few years is over, and the training department hired to be staffed for that frenzy.
I’m not hearing where anybody is surprised. The only people I can imagine that would be surprised is perhaps the 320 guys, as they have the most robust fleet/growth plans.