Training Footprint
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that time off is ground school/systems. You do home study and electronic lessons and then have a systems validation on day 2-3 of the training footprint, which is usually 4 weeks or so, but varies a bit depending on the fleet
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:-p
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Now we even do some of the 400 series in the FTDs. What a joke.
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This new "done before 1" crap has put even more of the burden of learning to the pilot. There isnt even enough briefing time to get through the slides. Don't even think about doing a manuever in the sim twice or having a more than 5 min break.
Now we even do some of the 400 series in the FTDs. What a joke.
Now we even do some of the 400 series in the FTDs. What a joke.
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I’d contend that we don’t ever find out if we taught ourselves properly. After the open-book-Vol2-searchable multiple choice test, systems knowledge isn’t really validated. Good luck on the line where Mx won’t really know the jet either.
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No one ever accidentally attempts a TOFU because they can't draw schematics of electrics and hydraulics and build the flap system on a whiteboard. In a world of little room for error in procedures and scripts and triggers and a couple numbers on a WDR that might make a huge difference even though you can go years without needing to use it...that kind of stuff is what we need to spend more training time on. We have better QRH/EICAS/ECAM/etc, searchable manuals and team expansion now than ever. Fleet specific frat initiation hazing is a good riddance relic of the past.
That said, I would still prefer an actual (practical) ground school to the self study method. Especially when its concurrent with having to know another fleet at the same time. If were going to do it this way, we should at least have a hard date a couple weeks prior to showing up for training. Many POI's for a long time had strict "training contamination" perspectives where the day you started training on one you were done on the other. Others permitted "dual qual" (or worse).
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