His imagination.

 

the manifesto scribbled in his crashpad

 

Since you say pilots are so bad at math, what has more value, $63k or $0k?

Because any pension will be gone after the next bankruptcy. No thanks, I’ll take my money now.

 

this place needs a like button

 

Formal standards for standardized "ab initio" pilot training programs, anyone?

Works for the military. Works for Lufthansa.

Airlines don't want to do it here, because they haven't had to, but also because they're at risk of the feds changing the rules/standards mid stream.

 

There's no shortage of dudes willing to fly 787/777s for UA. The only roadblock is UAL's (and other airline's) training pipelines. Age 65->Age 67 won't really fix that.

those senior WB captains will be restricted to domestic only. How many of them will want to go back to DEN-ORD-IAH-LAX-EWR-SFO-IAD and nowhere else? ICAO isn't going to just change their rules because Congress/FAA change ours.

ab initio is a massive threat to collective bargaining here in the US, and ALPA is way behind the ball on making sure that the company doesn't gain additional leverage over the pilots going through those schools.

Also ab initio pilots typically have less internal motivation/drive to become pilots... you'll get a lot more dudes and dudettes who aren't really passionate enough about flying to get it done themselves.

Let's not try to solve management's problems for them.

 

you sure it worked for Lufthansa?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525

 

There's a lot more to that onion than the American press presents that can't be discussed here...or the American press, for that matter. The English version of Der Spiegel had some great articles a couple of months after the fact.

Germany is not alone in having tragic incidents like this either. (FedEx 705, anyone? Stanford alum AND US Navy trained/psych eval-ed)

Pretty sure that the ab initio training and flight skills weren't the problem.

(Not advocating ab initio....it is a threat to collective bargaining. Fortunately, US airlines aren't about to put down a penny more for training costs than absolutely necessary before the robots take over. Just throwing it out there.)

 

Can't be discussed here? What are talking about? You brought it up.

He was an ab initio cadet with 100 something hours when hired. He locked the Captain out of the cockpit and committed suicide by crashing into the Alps and killed all 144 aboard.

 

It sort of worked for them. They had the common sense to send the lesser candidates to their low-cast affiliate so as not to tarnish the big brand.