Originally Posted by
krudawg
The AQP is essentially the same. We have some kind of check every 9 months. It's either a PC or PT. PC is 3 days with an MTV event on day 2 and an LOE (Loft) on Day 3. The PT is 2 Days and is no jeaprody - sort of. The 777 and the 400 have lapse landing sims as required and I believe the same 18 months PC/PT cycle. I just came back from a PC and had a "Data Collector" sitting in the sim on the Day 3 LOE. Apparently the purpose of the "DATA Collector" is to merge UAL's and CAL's training methods - somehow. At my recent PC we were told that the 757 V1 cut profiles will be changing to standardize it across the fleets but they wanted to look at CAL's V1 cut profile before making the change.
At UAL, in most cases, I have always found an adversarial relationship between the Standards Captains and the pilot being checked but in recent times this attitude has changed somewhat.
In my time at United, I have had only one check ride where the Standards Capt was adversarial. The rest were just fine. They all have their issues, but they want to see you succeed. The job share guys tend to be more realistic. Then you have the job share folks who were rEAL. Good times.