Originally Posted by DashGirl

I agree with all of that post for certain. I actually feel we more or less have the same opinion albeit mine expressed more harshly.
I believe so.
Overall, it seems like the two unnamed aforementioned individuals seem to think they are running, or wish they were running a military jet training squadron vs a TP regional training program. I've often felt that the primary problem is that it's been the total failure of both of them to achieve any sort of distinguished success in their careers and that they take it out on the whole pilot group. Both of them should have been senior training guys with 15 years command experience on a heavy jet by now. One must wonder, was it perhaps their attitude that kept them here?
I'll give you one, and he's got an inflated sense of self that makes everyone else's life miserable. He's also well known outside of PDT for his ego.
I mean c'mon , keeping the AQP manual Top Secret is just plain immature and absurd. If it's a fair policy, and it's a fair program, and it's CBA complaint, then what do they have to hide?
Wasn't that way when I was there, but I know things have changes for the worse between the union and the company, apparently to include the training dept. Things were very transparent. We had monthly meetings and a good level of involvement from both sides. Things were starting to go south when I left.
My examples of favoritism I can't really get into without naming names. But I can say that in my domicile we have C/A's that have an excellent relationship with training, never failed a checkride that have no business being in command of a transport category aircraft or even a Cessna for that matter. Yet year after year they pass recurrent. There's more to that then meets the eye, but I understand the rub. Then we have guys I fly with that teach me more in one leg then I've learned in totality from my TD experiences that just because of one bad sim ride and disagreement with an instructor are constantly special tracked or at the extreme: forced to downgrade. All the forced downgrades that I'm aware of except for one or two needed it. This is a bit of an exaggerated euphemism but the TD wants pilots that can academically fly the perfect sim. It's not much of an exaggeration, but it holds true everywhere. They have no use for pilots that can actually fly airplanes. I'm not sure I agree with that. Forced downgrade is actually very uncommon in the industry at large, yet at PDT, it's not. What does that say: We have a training dept that simply has a higher level of standard then the rest of the industry? Or does it say the standard our training department has is too high? I think it says the training dept doesn't tolerate any BS. I'm furloughed from a company who outsources training to a third party, and everyone passes every time. There may be retraining at times, but if the overall pass rate isn't 100% I'd be surprised. The result is many pilots sitting in the left seat who should be in the right. I've watched guys so far behind the airplane I was checking into the hotel while they were still running the before start checklist. They're the exception to the rule at that company, but at PDT you may fly with 2 or 3 that are like that but still get it together in the sim. They're the ones that fall through the cracks. The cracks are pretty narrow at PDT.

I also have firsthand knowledge that you can tell one of the two you're talking about that he's full of it in the sim and still pass. I always found his rides to plenty fair. He also might be the only guy in management that will go down in flames for you if you are being treated unjustly by the company. I watched him argue with the old CP and threaten to resign over a pilot being wronged by him. (I think we're talking about the same guy)

I never left. I've just been in a real bad mood for the last year, no, make the last Four and haven't felt like posting. I'm really not going to do so that often, just the PDT hiring thing made me chime in. I wanted to get the word out to any potential new hire to steer clear of this place.