Originally Posted by
DAL73n
One of the things that should be addressed is training in general. I have been in the SIM with just me and the instructor - it's horrible. With the instructor trying to fill two jobs it is the worst of both worlds. I also believe the two captains or two FOs doesn't even work very well. An FO sitting in the Captain seat doesn't make a very good Captain and a Captain (unless he's a LCA) doesn't make a very good FO. I also agree that the DGS "You'll get it on the line" isn't a very good way to train anybody. Everything we do in the SIM should be the same as on the line (except of course the EMERGENCIES we never want to see on the line
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fNW we had some sort of seniority list pilot in both seats for full flight sims.
It might be a seat support instructor (CA or FO), it might be a guy on Reserve called in to "fly" a seat support trip, or it might be student FO and FO or CA and CA if they are going through initial together.
Having said that, we still had our fair share of "you'll get that on IOE" from sim instructors and "You'll get that on the line" from IOE instructors. Some of that was driven by the endless training footprint modifications on each fleet. Either they wanted to shrink the footprint, or cram more stuff into the footprint. Either way you were hurting the quality of training.
I'll take a SLI pilot with line experience over a guy that hasnt flown the line if given a choice. Yes, its a generalization and yes there is always that 2 percent factor, but usually you know who those 2 percent are...