Skywest training is the BEST in the regionals
09-20-2017, 12:51 PM
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The info that I was stating was about my friend who just completed training with OO, not me. He also mentioned that he has a friend at mesa and they also have quality inhouse training.
No failures for anyone they just felt that it was refreshing to have a training program at skywest that actually tries to teach rather then just read out massive information and you learn on your own. Having a initial good ground and sim instructor makes a huge difference in the success rate of passing initial training
No failures for anyone they just felt that it was refreshing to have a training program at skywest that actually tries to teach rather then just read out massive information and you learn on your own. Having a initial good ground and sim instructor makes a huge difference in the success rate of passing initial training
09-20-2017, 01:10 PM
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Originally Posted by friend
The info that I was stating was about my friend who just completed training with OO, not me. He also mentioned that he has a friend at mesa and they also have quality inhouse training.
No failures for anyone they just felt that it was refreshing to have a training program at skywest that actually tries to teach rather then just read out massive information and you learn on your own. Having a initial good ground and sim instructor makes a huge difference in the success rate of passing initial training
No failures for anyone they just felt that it was refreshing to have a training program at skywest that actually tries to teach rather then just read out massive information and you learn on your own. Having a initial good ground and sim instructor makes a huge difference in the success rate of passing initial training
09-21-2017, 05:10 AM
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Originally Posted by Blackwing
SkyWest's training is so awesome some newhires need as much as 100 hours to get through IOE!
09-22-2017, 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by amcnd
Thats just a few a year... under 5 people.. out of 800+ hired thats a very small percentage...
09-24-2017, 04:20 AM
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The training materials are good - better than Delta's according to a friend there.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
There are some good instructors and some really bad ones at Skywest. Unfortunately there's no mechanism for identifying the bad ones. Many instructors do not differentiate between sim partners so if you have a bad partner then you are screwed.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
There are some good instructors and some really bad ones at Skywest. Unfortunately there's no mechanism for identifying the bad ones. Many instructors do not differentiate between sim partners so if you have a bad partner then you are screwed.
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09-24-2017, 03:22 PM
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[QUOTE=DLocked;2435175]The training materials are good - better than Delta's according to a friend there.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
-most of us had a month wait for ioe. study EVERYTHING, and ask your lca questions when you show up. call him/her the night before you start your ioe trip to introduce yourself and clear any questions up. that sets the tone for how things are going to go. if people aren't studying and sit around for a month doing nothing and fail their line check or need extra ioe because of it, that's their own fault.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
-most of us had a month wait for ioe. study EVERYTHING, and ask your lca questions when you show up. call him/her the night before you start your ioe trip to introduce yourself and clear any questions up. that sets the tone for how things are going to go. if people aren't studying and sit around for a month doing nothing and fail their line check or need extra ioe because of it, that's their own fault.
09-24-2017, 03:30 PM
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Spend 30 minutes every day chair flying one leg plus some abnormals. Review mems & lims. Then put that crap away and enjoy the day off! If you don't, you'll wish you had soon enough...
BTW, you can chair-fly in Hawaii...or Paris, or Barcelona, or Bangkok, or Florence, etc.
Originally Posted by DLocked
The training materials are good - better than Delta's according to a friend there.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
-most of us had a month wait for ioe. study EVERYTHING, and ask your lca questions when you show up. call him/her the night before you start your ioe trip to introduce yourself and clear any questions up. that sets the tone for how things are going to go. if people aren't studying and sit around for a month doing nothing and fail their line check or need extra ioe because of it, that's their own fault.
The long breaks in the middle of sim training, before IOE, and even during IOE set students up for failure according to the LCA's and other pilot friends. That's been the biggest disappointment.
-most of us had a month wait for ioe. study EVERYTHING, and ask your lca questions when you show up. call him/her the night before you start your ioe trip to introduce yourself and clear any questions up. that sets the tone for how things are going to go. if people aren't studying and sit around for a month doing nothing and fail their line check or need extra ioe because of it, that's their own fault.
BTW, you can chair-fly in Hawaii...or Paris, or Barcelona, or Bangkok, or Florence, etc.
09-24-2017, 03:52 PM
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Originally Posted by amcnd
Heard they are "tweaking" the ground/sim training. More loft style training... (line oriented flight training)
Yep, reducing ground school by a third of the time. Very little systems training and going to scenario type training.
Because the average pilot is coming with lots more time, experience, and real life emergency experiences. (tons of sarcasm)
But it's true, big reduction in the training footprint with lots of shift to self training via cbt's.
Good luck all!
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