New hire sim instructors
03-18-2019, 10:29 AM
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Originally Posted by climb150
Havent flown for a decade and thinking about diving back in. Have mostly part 91 turbo prop.
I want to get into training as I worked as an SFI for while a few years ago.
Any chance of a new FO being a sim instructor?
I want to get into training as I worked as an SFI for while a few years ago.
Any chance of a new FO being a sim instructor?
No offense to you my friend, but how does this sound like a good idea? Piedmont is the land of the children leading the blind, but this is some next level crackpipe stuff.
03-18-2019, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by MantisToboggan
No 145 time, no jet time, haven't flown for a decade, want to be an instructor. Got it.
No offense to you my friend, but how does this sound like a good idea? Piedmont is the land of the children leading the blind, but this is some next level crackpipe stuff.
No offense to you my friend, but how does this sound like a good idea? Piedmont is the land of the children leading the blind, but this is some next level crackpipe stuff.
03-18-2019, 01:05 PM
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Originally Posted by MantisToboggan
No 145 time, no jet time, haven't flown for a decade, want to be an instructor. Got it.
No offense to you my friend, but how does this sound like a good idea? Piedmont is the land of the children leading the blind, but this is some next level crackpipe stuff.
No offense to you my friend, but how does this sound like a good idea? Piedmont is the land of the children leading the blind, but this is some next level crackpipe stuff.
I'd say the ten years out of the plane is the bigger issue there, but that's what a proper interview should determine...
03-18-2019, 01:43 PM
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Originally Posted by BosoxH60
My experience was more like "I'm a sim operator just following the script. Hope you can figure out what you're doing", than any sort of instruction anyway (across multiple instructors). Didn't really need to be someone with 121 experience to do up to MV. It took one of the DPEs to give any real instruction on how to solidly handle a V1 cut... information that would have been awesome several weeks before. Someone with solid instructing skills, that was properly taught themselves, should be able to do just as well at that, even without experience in the actual plane.
I'd say the ten years out of the plane is the bigger issue there, but that's what a proper interview should determine...
I'd say the ten years out of the plane is the bigger issue there, but that's what a proper interview should determine...
03-18-2019, 05:17 PM
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Dash training was a special kind of hell. It was occasionally used as a form of punishment and a few instructors would present compounded, unrealistic scenarios until the crew reached a breaking point. The Dash was a great airplane, but it could bite you if you didn’t respect it. The training should’ve been tough, but not in the ways PDT made it tough. That being said, we had some incredibly talented pilots and I had full faith in their abilities to handle just about any non-normal scenario they faced.
Training on the jet is much more relaxed. Think “cooperate-graduate”... I feel like the quality has improved significantly since the start, but I do think we need more instructors with actual Piedmont line experience. This “you’ll learn it on SOE” garbage is BS and should not happen. I hope that whoever that has happened to has detailed it in their post-training reviews so it can be corrected.
Training on the jet is much more relaxed. Think “cooperate-graduate”... I feel like the quality has improved significantly since the start, but I do think we need more instructors with actual Piedmont line experience. This “you’ll learn it on SOE” garbage is BS and should not happen. I hope that whoever that has happened to has detailed it in their post-training reviews so it can be corrected.
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