Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
IF our goal really is SAFETY, then better training may be a reasonable trade off. At my company, stall training events, for example, have changed from basically recovering from slow flight to actual stall recovery.
I want more money, but at the end of the day, I want to go home in one piece, and I want the guy/gal next to me to be up to snuff. And higher standards will eliminate some people: eventually higher standards should lead to higher pay.
I'm all for better training, but I doubt initial left seat training would have prevented the Buffalo crash. The captain messed up and that is most likely the result of a lack of good prior experience. Whether it was his lack of training as a student or his lack of training others as a CFI (to get memory sticking reaction to a stall) I don't know. However until ALPA gets serious about making 1st year pay at regionals a liveable wage we will never get where we need to be in trying to make 1st year FO's as safe as they can be. I don't remember the pscychologist, but there are certain things a human needs, and in certain order. Safety, Food, Security etc... are all at the top of the list. If an FO can't afford to support those items first then everything after that is negatively affected.