Originally Posted by
Lambourne
If their companies are not willing to train them, then it is not OUR problem. Let these guys sit in the pad critiquing the rest of the industry while we take our passengers to and from their destinations. Let their performance drop below the threshold to keep their parasite contracts with the major partners.
Well, sort of. Need and example? Colgan, that became a problem for all of us. Could you imagine what would have happened if DAL/CAL hit somebody on those taxiways? Could you imagine what would have happened if that UAL 744 smacked the mountain in SFO years ago? Please, spare me the argument. Those crews were lucky, NOT good. Maybe some serious retraining is in order for the high and mighty legacy pilots that could have killed a lot of people. Did not the UAL PF know how to handle a loss of thrust on takeoff to ensure the airplane will climb and meet the necessary criteria? Did not the CAL/DAL crews know how distinguish a taxi way from a runway? Were they simply not trained in said things? That's called sarcasm.
Originally Posted by
Lambourne
Let's put these guys out of business. We should not support these pilots that have made a career out of working on the cheap and NOT knowing the rules. They are so infatuated with taking flying from a major airline pilot that they haven't botherd to learn how to operate an airplane. School is out. Let them learn it the hard way!
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Sort of agree. Maybe we shouldn't support the legacy pilots that allowed their CBA's to be gutted, as well as gave away scope helping to put this profession in the sad state it's found itself.
And the old, worn out, stale legacy vs. regional argument/thread drift continues..............