Originally Posted by
Oberon
But we don't all get the same training. Do you think the training program at Great Lakes is comparable to the training program at Delta? I don't really know much about the training programs at either airline, but I'll go out on a limb as say the Delta program is more comprehensive.
Think of it this way, some airlines (not just regionals) wear the bare minimum pieces of flair, while other airlines wear 37 pieces of flair.
Originally Posted by
fosters
Actually I've heard the Great Lakes training program is incredibly difficult and washes out a lot of folks. If you can pass Great Lakes you can pretty much pass anything out there. I have ridden on them a few times, they do some pretty tough stuff, non-precision approaches in the mts of NM and CO, lots of ice, etc.
I used to work there, and GLA is the toughest training I have ever gone through. The washout rate is (or at least was) staggering. It was much more thorough than ASA.
OTH, most of my friends who have gone to Delta say that ASA's training was much more comprehensive.
So what you would think out on the limb isn't always true.