Originally Posted by
ANPBird
Did you only get one chance, didn't pass, and fired as a result? I was in CRJ transition training the same time you were in upgrade. In the sim, my partner did not pass his checkride (upgrade) along with a few other
Here's the thread that discussed all the gory details:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/re...s-upgrade.html
In summary, I failed the oral, then the next morning at 6am did the sim, which I failed also (with the same guy who failed me on the oral).
Don't worry, when he filled out the pink slips for both the ATP failure and EMB type rating failure in both categories, he didn't waste any energy on identifying which area I failed. Just wrote every area.
I did get my ATP last Tuesday, and the examiner was a bit confused how I could fail the oral and keep going and even be able to fail the sim (practical) part. The practical test standards say otherwise. And he was confused, I think, how I could fail everything. By the way, the guy I had Tues was former SkW, too. Good guy.
Anyhoo, the company elected not to give me a retake on either the oral or practical. That decision on my behalf by the company was my "third" strike. They did mention how the FAA would have to be there for the retake, "and they really didn't want that."
Of course, my ATP written timed out prior to my ATP retake, so I got to take that again, too. I'll do recurrent on the CRJ next week to lift the "circling VMC only" and "SIC" limitations.
Lots of them were transitions but a couple were not and we had the FAA sit in on about 90% of our rides. ..... You should have been given the choice to go back to the right seat on the CRJ and all would have worked out but that is just my opinion.
As you know, had I been a transition, I would be golden. Fail the program, just go back to the previous seat. Upgrade failure... fired. Seems like it should be opposite to me: Captains have no excuse to fail. They're gods !!!
Of course, I'm kidding. The rule is crude. Like cutting off hands for stealing. But as long as you've got a majority of Captain Blow Hards, that rule will be there another 15 or 20 years... union or no union.