Comair about to lower thier mins to 300/100
05-12-2007 | 01:10 PM
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05-12-2007 | 02:02 PM
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Its not really a jet transition course we have.....well sort of. They do one day of ground, teaching you everything about the FMS, autopilot, basically how to program and fly the CRJ. Then one day in the FTD where they throw a million things at you, including flows, checklists etc... Then two days in the actual sim, and then an evaluation. Its pretty fun, but seems weird bc we havent even had systems or indoc and we are all going thru flows, and checklists which we have no idea whats going on. Apparently a few people have washed out of training at this point. Comair seems to have really changed their training program since they have lowered their minimums. they say this "launch" program is an extention of your interview since there is no sim on the actual interview.....
05-12-2007 | 02:26 PM
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Oh, and if you are really making fliers, you have entirely too much time on your hands. Get a hobby.
05-12-2007 | 02:35 PM
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From what I'm seeing in the current US regional airline hiring practices there are absolutely no parallels to established ab-initio programs. While I think many people understand ab-initio exists, I'm missing your point.
Do you really think that taking a 250 hour cessna pilot and throwing them into a jet in a high traffic 121 environment is the safest operation? I do think you'll see a lot of regional captains flying "single pilot" on many flights. No offense to the new guys - they just don't have the experience under current training rules to effectively do the job outside of normal ops.
Do you really think that taking a 250 hour cessna pilot and throwing them into a jet in a high traffic 121 environment is the safest operation? I do think you'll see a lot of regional captains flying "single pilot" on many flights. No offense to the new guys - they just don't have the experience under current training rules to effectively do the job outside of normal ops.
05-12-2007 | 04:00 PM
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Ellen,
Good for you making fliers and handing them out. I've done a bunch of bold things before just to **** people off and laugh about it later, but I don't think I'd have the balls for that. Telling passengers, especially the nervous first time fliers, that the flight they are about to board isn't safe like that is a good way to cause a huge cluster****. Having written proof of the stunt is even worse (lesson #1 of doing stupid crap-never have hard proof). If you do goto an airport and hand this out PM me and I'll bring a camera. Then if the worst case scenarios in my head don't pan out... I'll join you!
The flying public is so clueless and passengers spend so much time sitting around airports board...the flyers would definitely get read and it'd probably be very informative for them.
Good for you making fliers and handing them out. I've done a bunch of bold things before just to **** people off and laugh about it later, but I don't think I'd have the balls for that. Telling passengers, especially the nervous first time fliers, that the flight they are about to board isn't safe like that is a good way to cause a huge cluster****. Having written proof of the stunt is even worse (lesson #1 of doing stupid crap-never have hard proof). If you do goto an airport and hand this out PM me and I'll bring a camera. Then if the worst case scenarios in my head don't pan out... I'll join you!
The flying public is so clueless and passengers spend so much time sitting around airports board...the flyers would definitely get read and it'd probably be very informative for them.
05-12-2007 | 04:18 PM
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I hope you're joking. That's exactly what we need. Less people wanting to fly so there's less money so they pay less so less people become pilots so they drop the mins even more.
05-12-2007 | 06:08 PM
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But then again, predicting what Comair does is like predicting what regional will be #1 this time next year, Nobody knows, maybe cept
THE "DON" Bornhorst, and he ain't talkin.
05-12-2007 | 07:06 PM
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"A 300TT pilot who had to practice more to get his/her driver's license than to fly a plane"? Wow, hyperbole much? You are aware there are folks in Europe and Asia who were brought into airline flying ab-initio flying narrowbody and widebody aircraft with as little as 250 hours, right?
No they won't; Joe Public could care less. All they care about is safe passage from Point A to Point B at the lowest possible price, which at this point is exactly the product they are getting.
With the asinine statements you continually make on this boards you're either really naive to the realities of the airline industry or really, really bad at flamebait.
No they won't; Joe Public could care less. All they care about is safe passage from Point A to Point B at the lowest possible price, which at this point is exactly the product they are getting.
With the asinine statements you continually make on this boards you're either really naive to the realities of the airline industry or really, really bad at flamebait.
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