Safety concerns
08-25-2023, 05:18 AM
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What’s more of a safety concern is that our experienced instructors are being/will be replaced by first officers! This will include all training events during recurrent, transitions, and new hires so the company could save money by paying first officer rates. Jobs and invaluable experience lost, thanks to APA who approved it!!!
08-25-2023, 08:02 AM
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What’s more of a safety concern is that our experienced instructors are being/will be replaced by first officers! This will include all training events during recurrent, transitions, and new hires so the company could save money by paying first officer rates. Jobs and invaluable experience lost, thanks to APA who approved it!!!
08-25-2023, 08:21 AM
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What’s more of a safety concern is that our experienced instructors are being/will be replaced by first officers! This will include all training events during recurrent, transitions, and new hires so the company could save money by paying first officer rates. Jobs and invaluable experience lost, thanks to APA who approved it!!!
Apart from the A320 ride at Airways I also completed the S80, 757/767, 777, and 737 programs under AA.
The 75/76 sim instructor was a close second having medical'd out of an ACMI IIRC.
But by far the best instructor I had here was the F/O qualified line guy at Airways. This includes all of my recurrent training events.
The job of the sim instructor is to instruct on operation of the aircraft for the type ride, not regale you with stories about coulda woulda shoulda.
Respectfully, your opinion is baseless.
08-25-2023, 12:56 PM
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Hmmmmm...
During new hire training, I had a ground instructor who, while he was a pilot, had less than 1200 hours and was building time toward a job at Envoy. Had a sim instructor who, while he was a pilot, had been retired for a long while and had never flown the airplane he was teaching me, nor had he flown for AA.
I think hiring our FOs is probably a step up in both quality and in increasing pilot jobs. But yeah, I'd prefer these things go to Captains.
During new hire training, I had a ground instructor who, while he was a pilot, had less than 1200 hours and was building time toward a job at Envoy. Had a sim instructor who, while he was a pilot, had been retired for a long while and had never flown the airplane he was teaching me, nor had he flown for AA.
I think hiring our FOs is probably a step up in both quality and in increasing pilot jobs. But yeah, I'd prefer these things go to Captains.
I think they can teach shutdown flows.
08-25-2023, 02:54 PM
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lol, reread my post. I think it s an improvement. Just wish it were captains since it would create a need for more higher paid captain positions.
08-25-2023, 03:40 PM
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