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Unfortunately I do believe that as applicants we must do our DD and become as informed of a company as best as possible. There are companies that have bad training departments and unfortunately have narcissistic characters who hold power over us such as chief pilots and check pilots. I’m blessed to be at my final airline which is one of the 3 legacies but if I could do it all over again I would have avoided the regional where it all started. Companies like Republic, PSA, Atlas, and Gojet I would avoid like the plague due to the higher than normal career altering events and bad training departments. I remember calling in sick when I would get a known tough for nothing check pilot. Unfortunately I believe some of these guys determined how the outcome of a meeting or checkride would go before the ride even began and stroked their egos with the outcome. Also most of those super tough for nothing check pilots that I knew of were terrible pilots. I knew of those guys dragging wings, tails, runway incursions, and violating the P56 out of DCA.
Now it is possible to go to one of these regionals and the Swiss cheese never aligning where you’ll be fine but why risk it when the percentage numbers are higher than other places? The majors know of the problem airlines and see the bigger picture so don’t give up but also work to become the best pilot you can and DO YOUR DD and avoid places with higher than normal problems.
Originally Posted by Sirius
These are good questions to ask yourself. One of the greatest things we can do in life is to learn from all negative encounters. Yes I believe you can study harder and leave nothing to chance always assume you will be taking a checkride with the toughest check pilots you’ve ever met even when you’re at a better company.Unfortunately I do believe that as applicants we must do our DD and become as informed of a company as best as possible. There are companies that have bad training departments and unfortunately have narcissistic characters who hold power over us such as chief pilots and check pilots. I’m blessed to be at my final airline which is one of the 3 legacies but if I could do it all over again I would have avoided the regional where it all started. Companies like Republic, PSA, Atlas, and Gojet I would avoid like the plague due to the higher than normal career altering events and bad training departments. I remember calling in sick when I would get a known tough for nothing check pilot. Unfortunately I believe some of these guys determined how the outcome of a meeting or checkride would go before the ride even began and stroked their egos with the outcome. Also most of those super tough for nothing check pilots that I knew of were terrible pilots. I knew of those guys dragging wings, tails, runway incursions, and violating the P56 out of DCA.
Now it is possible to go to one of these regionals and the Swiss cheese never aligning where you’ll be fine but why risk it when the percentage numbers are higher than other places? The majors know of the problem airlines and see the bigger picture so don’t give up but also work to become the best pilot you can and DO YOUR DD and avoid places with higher than normal problems.
Yup, thanks. I agree with not only about your comments of those mentioned carriers, but yes, looks like I really slipped into a hole and broke a leg on this recurrency. Although the KV part, yes it was overwhelming, but after I passed the KV with all the knowledge and expertise I gained, I felt my competence sky rocketed (don't mean to sound cocky), and I felt much better and was gaining the confidence to eventually upgrade as I saw myself better prepared for the worse, so I probably would not change the KV the way it is. And it's true, treat all recurrency like an initial checkride. And I know how to prepare now with the right approach. I guess I was just too relaxed based on the outcome of success at XJT? Possible. Currently talking with Emerald Coast and trying to figure out what exactly were the triggers to this. And it's possible maybe i've been explaining about my failures the wrong way on my app, trying to figure it out.
I wish that after the LOE failure I'd have the opportunity to take those bad mistakes as a lesson and continue, at least the LCA complemented me that i'm really competent and capable in my role and can definitely fix the gaps. Yeah the rudder issue during single engine and standing outside of the stabilized approach envelope were pretty huge and none a tolerable mistakes. That's what I think is the worse scar now in my career and it's going to be hard to explain about that. Like someone mentioned here, I might've fell back to the student pilot level and i'm considered dangerous now to the paying passengers.