Originally Posted by
ZapBrannigan
This is not necessarily the case anymore.
and I'm not concerned about the cost to the company of running sim evaluations. I'm more concerned by people who slip through the cracks and make it to the line lacking the ability to hand fly the airplane to ATP standards.
Those people will go get sim prep at great cost to them and blow the sim check out of the water.
I normally agree with all things Zap, but we have seen this play out already. They did away with them sim in the interview because pilots are pilots and will stop at nothing to prepare themselves. Pretty soon everyone has to get the prep or they will look bad at the interview. The only people who make out are the companies that offer prep in some broke assed janky 737-300 sim.
The real losers are the people without the money or time to get the prep, which would probably cover a lot of the marginalized folks that should be getting an opportunity at this profession.
I am a big believer in making training more of a jeopardy event. It was ridiculously easy when we went through, and they have only very recently started treating it as something that covers various experience levels.