I was implying something, I thought I was being direct? If the meeting up in MSP was misrepresented by me as a second hand source (and please everyone understand I don't get into those meetings) please feel free to correct me. I understand that meetings go on, I understand there are some different procedures that the Mesaba guys are bringing in where everybody talks to each other quarterly, I understand there are a few things the Pinnacle guys do that are going to be brought in, but that wasn't what I'm talking about. (side note: there are some things I'd love to have seen us do on the fenced side for years) I'm fairly confident every reader can understand your point that the two operations will merge and we will bring in things from both sides. What I am talking about, what the meeting last week was about, is letting everyone know the unexplainable (apparently not a word) high fail rate and strangely diverse criteria pilots are being held to is a problem, one which must be fixed going forward.
The training department has to fix the training department, the union is actively working to get guys jobs back and failures expunged. I have seen guys smarter and harder studying than me get failed into firing while I made it though unscathed (although fairly angry and nervous) with a nice long vacation. My favorite was one guy on his third oral who knew more about the icing procedures than me and I had already passed the oral.
We do fail people, we do downgrade them, but the XJ guys would say there's no "Best of the Best" mentality here. We believe if you've been hired and you've made it this far you are certainly professional and if you fail it's probably representative more of training than of the pilot, and the 2% of the wackjobs we have here can be pushed to do better given the proper tools and proper training.
At some point Seggy I just have to say "if you say so". You knew/know more about that than I do in that regard. I wish the changeover would have happened a while ago.
That's funny, since the union is spending a lot of resources to correct some of the failures. By definition I would say that the failures are out of line if we are actively seeking to correct them. I would politely wonder if TW is just being neutral on subject publicly while directing the union to react how they are reacting in response to some out of line examiners.
Look, knowing how many fuses on the tires and if that line in the aft equ bay is a hydraulic line or a fuel line is monumentally important. The plane actually blows up in mid-air if it finds out you don't know these key principals.
Well, thanks a lot, now I'll be studying my eyes out instead of having a nice dinner tonight.
The only people who believe that, are the ones without formal training on teaching. Fear is a huge barrier to learning. Fear motivation has no place in a 121 training environment, and those that use it have no business being an instructor. My big point of contention, is that the requirements to be a 121 training captain don't actually involve knowing how to teach.
Right, gun to the head pushed performance, but never application or correlation. Performance is fine for sim 2, but, the goal should be to push people out of the house at the correlation level. Anybody can blindly follow a checklist, but it takes correlation to understand the effects and reasons behind each action. Sadly, those that don't understand this use fear, and then try to build understanding by " building the plane"
Actually, it sounds like you might be a couple months behind.
