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#121
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Joined APC: Aug 2022
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I appreciate the input. Are you saying that GoJet examiners will intentionally tank a checkride so that the guy will be stuck at GoJet? I am a qualified, typed, successful CRJ captain. In a fair fight I should be able to pass a legitimate checkride. However, I have seen some bad examiners in action, so I know stuff like that can happen.
Every instructor and examiner want you to succeed, but Gojet isn't paying for Gojet instructors. They've outsourced groundschool to Flight Safety. FS desperately makes instructors out of anyone who can get the type rating. Your sim instructor have never flown in a CRJ, they're retirees who observed simulator sessions. They'll teach you techniques for how to fly a 707 or DC-10 or whatever they flew in the 1980's, while you're trying to learn CRJ-550 in 2022. They're 60, 65 or 70 years old and will waste your simulator time with grandpa stories from when they were your age. They're good people, just not ideal instructors for a packed SPOT schedule.
Your first encounter with an actual Gojet pilot during training is on the day of your knowledge and maneuver validation. It's a VERY dangerous training program to attend as a DEC, because you're never trained by or with Gojet pilots, only evaluated. There's no conspiracy or unethical evaluators. It's just a lousy budget operation where the evaluators have to be the only and final barrier.
Gojet also operates the CRJ in their own special way, different from their peers. Their own checklist, their own callouts, their own procedures. Paying as little as possible to Bombardier. Captains with thousands of CRJ hours have failed the DEC evaluations at Gojet. And of course some have passed as well - those with exceptional ability to study, or a varied background so they know all the different ways things can be done.
#123
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Joined APC: Aug 2018
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On planespotter today they show 68 planes, 38 flying and 30 parked. I went to flightaware and started looking at the remaining planes. There is one Mesa left but it is not flying and looks like it is also parked now. I then started going through the United planes. Several of those have not flown the past few days and do not show any future flights scheduled. Will they ever fly again or will they soon be on the "parked" list?
#124
On planespotter today they show 68 planes, 38 flying and 30 parked. I went to flightaware and started looking at the remaining planes. There is one Mesa left but it is not flying and looks like it is also parked now. I then started going through the United planes. Several of those have not flown the past few days and do not show any future flights scheduled. Will they ever fly again or will they soon be on the "parked" list?
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#129
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Joined APC: Oct 2021
Posts: 35
I appreciate the input. Are you saying that GoJet examiners will intentionally tank a checkride so that the guy will be stuck at GoJet? I am a qualified, typed, successful CRJ captain. In a fair fight I should be able to pass a legitimate checkride. However, I have seen some bad examiners in action, so I know stuff like that can happen.
It makes no sense to take a risk at GoJet when other places pay better and don't have the bad history, unless you are one of those pilots that got yourself in a bind at your prior / current job and you CAN'T go elsewhere. In which case you already would have a bad 121 record.
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