The_Russian
Low Level Pilot
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Originally posted by huncowboy:
Why? We fly the same way Comair does. Maybe slightly different profiles.
However, he is incorrect that Comair is a training airline. GIA is a training airline for a small percentage of the F/O's that are in the program.
Originally posted by Four02Driver:
I completely agree with you on that one!!! DCA is a joke when it comes to real world experience. DCA trains their pilots to believe that there is only one way to fly: theirs. Those guys have a hard time outside their element. When I was instructing at GIA I had a few DCA CFIs under me that wouldn't leave DCA procedures and learn ours. It took us months to standardize them. One of them actually told me that students didn't need to learn slips to landing because "they will never have to do it in the airlines". Give me a frickin break!
Honestly, like I've always said:
It doesn't matter where you learn to fly. As long as you do it well and you know your sh!t. Some pilots from DCA will be eceptional. Some will be a discrace to the industry. Same goes with FSI, GIA, ERAU, and the list goes on. It also doesn't matter how many hours you have. A lot of people have it in their heads that a full logbook is a right of passage or a show of skill. It is simply not true.
Originally posted by huncowboy:
Plz do not put Gulfstream next to Comair. Thx.
Why? We fly the same way Comair does. Maybe slightly different profiles.
However, he is incorrect that Comair is a training airline. GIA is a training airline for a small percentage of the F/O's that are in the program.
Originally posted by Four02Driver:
A place like DCA does NOT give you what you need to take any aircraft down to mins when other peoples lives are at stake.
I completely agree with you on that one!!! DCA is a joke when it comes to real world experience. DCA trains their pilots to believe that there is only one way to fly: theirs. Those guys have a hard time outside their element. When I was instructing at GIA I had a few DCA CFIs under me that wouldn't leave DCA procedures and learn ours. It took us months to standardize them. One of them actually told me that students didn't need to learn slips to landing because "they will never have to do it in the airlines". Give me a frickin break!
Honestly, like I've always said:
It doesn't matter where you learn to fly. As long as you do it well and you know your sh!t. Some pilots from DCA will be eceptional. Some will be a discrace to the industry. Same goes with FSI, GIA, ERAU, and the list goes on. It also doesn't matter how many hours you have. A lot of people have it in their heads that a full logbook is a right of passage or a show of skill. It is simply not true.