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Old 01-02-2018 | 09:52 PM
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Originally Posted by fenix1
Can you please expound upon what you mean by “abusive”? Regionals are regionals to some degree, but I would like to learn more about your OO experience.
Definitely a "good ol' boy network"! Seen good folks get Sh!t canned and complete idiots move up the ladder. Horrible training! Pilots with egos the size of Texas. As a new hire, expensive domiciles with poor pay. Sure, other Regionals have poor pay as well but try living in California as a new hire on that crap! On the bright side, never had maintenance issues, the mechanics are top notch! Worked there a few years got my PIC and moved on. No further comments.
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Old 01-02-2018 | 11:38 PM
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Thanks a lot for sharing more.

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Definitely a "good ol' boy network"! Seen good folks get Sh!t canned and complete idiots move up the ladder. Horrible training! Pilots with egos the size of Texas. As a new hire, expensive domiciles with poor pay. Sure, other Regionals have poor pay as well but try living in California as a new hire on that crap! On the bright side, never had maintenance issues, the mechanics are top notch! Worked there a few years got my PIC and moved on. No further comments.
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Old 01-03-2018 | 06:16 AM
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Majors wont be able to train fast enough for retirements.. they won’t take on thousands of E175’s that are flying out there... seems Majors Training 1000 pilots ler year is the cap. Add another 1000 for a new regional operations l, that would break them..
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Old 01-03-2018 | 06:33 AM
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Majors wont be able to train fast enough for retirements.. they won’t take on thousands of E175’s that are flying out there... seems Majors Training 1000 pilots per year is the cap. Add another 1000 for a new regional operations l, that would break them..
They're smart enough to recognize the truth you speak. Downsized regionals who have given up planes to majors will have surplus training capacity.

Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).
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Old 01-03-2018 | 08:40 AM
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Originally Posted by FloridaLarry
They're smart enough to recognize the truth you speak. Downsized regionals who have given up planes to majors will have surplus training capacity.

Those Majors can out-source training when it exceeds their in-house capacity, including back to the regionals who'll have extra seats in their schoolhouse (perhaps easiest if you have WO regionals, perhaps not - internal politics vs controls by contractual arrangements).

The question isn't can any particular airline train at a given rate. For ground school, their capacity is unlimited, I sat through a new hired class of 70 once.

The question is how much SIM capacity exists globally for the aircraft in question, and who wants to use it. SIMs can't be built quickly, very small niche production.
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