Originally Posted by
lgaflyer
So the problem is indeed with the training program.
You design the training program based on your "targeted audience". For example, the regionals know that they are someone's first airline job, first jet, first multi-crew airplane, first high-altitude airplane, first RVSM, first FMC, first EFIS, first transport-category airplane. So their curriculums are designed for people like that.
If Atlas designed the 777 curriculum for ex-Emirate CAs, then Atlas should be hiring ex-Emirate CAs or the like. If they are not, then they need to redesign the curriculum.
The Atlas training programs are not designed for the same set of pilots the regionals are targeting. If a pilot does not see themselves capable of flying a complex arrival into a challenging international airport at night in crap weather while managing the energy of a heavy jet, they have no business applying to Atlas. If the hiring board chooses to hire someone who built hours in a C208, barely finished OE in a B737 at a marginal carrier (now defunct), and then struggled through 777 training despite excess OE, that is a problem with the pilot and those that hired him. Some pilots have above average skills and learning capability that overcomes their lack of experience. Some do not.
Atlas training is not a guaranteed pass. It’s big boy/big girl training with ATP ACS standards as the “minimum acceptable”. I make no apologies for that. Not everyone gets a trophy buttercup.