I have 5 type ratings. Got my first 525 and then my 525s at Loft. They were the worst. Cheap, yes, but objectively the worst training I’ve ever had. I think one of my critiques was in response to someone who said they never had scheduling problems and were always available and I said that was because they never fixed anything on their sim. Their manuals had numerous errors in them as well. Just bad.
Any jet I would make a smoking hole in I would have been trained and checked in to the company’s training manual, regardless if I already held the type. Also, I already went through their full ground and sim (albeit 6 years ago).
Plenty of their clients have become smoking holes in the ground. The main issue is that the syllabus and training curriculum require specific approvals. Probably not worth it for an aircraft that is mainly flown single pilot.
There sure as snot used to be.
It's wild how as you move up the ladder, the training gets worse and worse. My best training was at a 135 freight company. I knew the airplane pretty well and had to do the check ride with a fed in the airplane. CAE/FSI were pretty in depth, but spent too much time on trivial BS. When I went to a regional, it was very thorough. I think ground school was 3 weeks with multiple tests on various subjects. Major airline training was 3 days of indoc, which consists of mostly HR and management types coming around, followed by extensive CBT modules.It’s kind of funny coming from 135 to 121 because I feel like there’s a lot they withhold in terms of information. I’ve never seen the CG envelope for the CRJ. It’s not in any manual that’s made available to me. Just send off the data and plug in the numbers
Totally. I imagine it’s the same if you flew an owner/family, but when I was doing medevac a bunch of the flight nurses were there the whole 6 years I worked there through 3 different airframes and a lot of other pilots who came and went. The absolute faith they put in me and my FOs at 3 AM in southeast Alaska in the winter is probably the highest compliment to my work that I could have gotten.
The CRJ CG envelope is in the CRJ AFM. Our regional airline didn’t put it in the volume 1 or volume 2 of the AOM. I had to ask the training people for it and the fleet manager printed a copy of the CRJ-700 CG envelope from the Bombardier CRJ-700 AFM.
No the app is just a mirror of the acars on an ipad. Exactly the same you just need cell service or wifi to run it so in the air it’s useless. If that doesn’t work on the ground you call a chief and they run the numbers on their ipad acars. I’m telling you none of the documents we are given access to show it. Anywhere.
I’m sure it’s somewhere, it has to be. Every other jet I’ve flown I’ve had access to all the performance charts and weight and balance. Not here. I’m sure I could ask for it, but throughout training it was never discussed and was never made available.
