hopp

A friend shared an email from Amerijet HR. Apparently, there is new management at Amerijet who has decided to cut instructor pay by up to 28% for out of base training as well as some other benefits.. Not sure on details. The instructors are non-union.

A handful have resigned, others may follow. This sounds like financial trouble brewing for the cargo line.

JohnBurke

That should help with retention, and to attract quality, experienced candidates.

hopp

Their previous 767 ground school instructor was a 500 hour CFI, who they typed in the sim.He’s moved on now to a small regional. Gonna be tough to lower the bar from that.

The Dominican

You don't know this person; he actually did a pretty good job teaching ground school, and it is fortunate that he is still doing ground school on a part time basis because he is a pretty sharp kid with a bright future ahead of him. In top of that, he is as nice a person as it gets. He doesn't deserve that comment.

Twr199

He didn’t say the kids wasn’t nice. His stats are his stats.

The Dominican

"Tough to lower the bar from that" is not stating stats, that is assuming the person does a mediocre job, which he doesn't.

TiredSoul

Thats not what he said.
Tough to lower the bar as far as credentials.
No dog in this fight.

dera

A sharp guy who is nice as well is a pretty high bar.
I'd take that over some 10000hr grumpy old richard all day long.

Elevation

I'm usually pretty generous with lower time folks, but they need to come into the industry in the place where they can do the most good. Most classroom instruction is defined in training manuals. Indoc usually consists of regurgitating the manuals at a class with a little bit of context and question-fielding. If that's what he was doing, it's great experience for a lower time pilot with an airline career in his mind. If he was teaching systems, etc. then there's more room for experience and critical context to be missed.

Having a very inexperienced instructor teaching class has some negatives. For example, it tells the classroom that the company doesn't take the material seriously. So it is noteworthy that they have such a low time instructor. That interest is not reflective of him or our opinions of him, though.

Glad he's moved on. Hope he can buy and sell the whole place in a few years.

The Dominican

He didn't teach the entire ground school; he is one of the instructors, there were 4 or 5 all throughout. I actually thought the ground school all together wasn't bad. As to the instructor in question, he answered every question the class had, was prepared and knew the material.