Check airmen get new hires to the point of being qualified to fly with a regular captain. Captains mentor and help them grow as aviators. If you're just sitting there collecting a paycheck, you're not doing your job (IMO).

You do realize that these same candidates are going to legacy carriers too, right? Some of them come here first for a few months, but this is just the nature of the industry now.

Yeah. That's the attitude you really look for in a captain, right? GMAFB

I guess some of you failed (or ignored) the Pilot Professional Development training this year.

FAA AC 121-43
7.5 Communication Considerations. A mentor should have a willingness to share their knowledge with a protégé in a supportive and encouraging manner. A mentor should be honest, but not overly critical when providing feedback to a protégé. Consideration should be given to the format in which contact is made, the frequency of contacts, as well as the types of topics that may be covered. An air carrier/operator/program manager may want to define the formats for those contacts (e.g., in person, telephone, email, video conferencing, or other electronic means).

https://www.faa.gov/regulations_poli...mentID/1037177

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Sorry for the rant. This is just a pet peeve. A bunch of whiny captains who want the paycheck, but don't want the responsibilities that the pay entails is pretty pathetic.

You made a big mistake lumping me in with the other poster. Our views are NOT the same.

At the same time JB captains, and more or less major airline captains in general have almost never before, or at least not for decades, had to mentor wet ATP certificates.

And my beef isn't so much with doing so, or the state of the industry, it's that thus far the company has chosen to lower the average experience hired to the bare minimum vs competing with a better than average compensation/work rules package.

​​​​​​If they were competing for the best qualified candidates, and all that was left was wet ATPs, so be it. But that hasn't happened.

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Okay, if you aren't the same as that guy, that's a good thing. But regardless of what the company does that doesn't mean that captains get a pass to be bad at their jobs. Professionalism means doing your job in spite of whatever dumb### stuff the company does.

This depends on your base but now it’s as early as 1 week.

week wait for 320 JFK?

Just last week we were told its a "significant wait"

Yep, never said I wouldn't be an appropriate mentor, I asked (mostly joking for dramatic affect) if we would get paid for clearly being an instructor captain, which we are all about to become.

big difference in not being willing to share and help the wet behind the ears aviators and not coming out and bombarding them with tips and techniques. If they ask I always answer.