ERAU Propaganda?

[SMOE]

Two quotes from the lastest issue of ERAU's "The Leader" magazine made me cringe and wonder of I will continue to read this rag. Its from a blurb titled: CAPT Program Awards First Turbojet Ratings:

"It demonstrates that 500-hour pilots trained in a specialized training program like ours are capable of the same command and judgement necessary for the airline transport certificate that pilots with many more hours have."

Thats quite a statement to make. I have 750+ pilot hours and over 5800 FE hours. I know they're blowin' smoke on that one. You can't buy sound judgement, common sense or experience.

The next one perhaps some of you on the other side of the interview table can verify, or is it about as believable as the first quote?

"At a time when flight instructor experience is less relevant to the role of a newly hired jet pilot, the CAPT Program is creating the type of specially trained pilots that the airlines now seek."

Flight instructor experience less relevant????????? What the F*&%?!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

what do you expect, they are selling a PRODUCT.

Anyone with a brain can read between the lines, dont let it get you worked up!

 

[BritishGuy]

To tell you the truth, if the lad gets a job, who gives a s*** how many hours he has.

 

[xjcaptain]

Who cares how many hours he has? Ummmm.....ME! I'm the Captain/babysitter and a good EXPERIENCED fo is worth his/her weight in gold. Having flown with low times FO's who THINK they should be the captain because their teacher told them so is a frustrating experience. I think the phrase goes something like "Too stupid to be scared" There is no shortcut to experience.

 

[DKM]

Here's more info on ERAU's Handi"CAPT" program...

www.captiscrap.com

 

[standaman]

And the riddle bashing begins again. They are trying to make money. Can't fault them for that.

 

[falconpilot]

Xjcapt said it best... There is no substitute for experience. I'm the youngest pilot in our flight department, and I am very fortunate to be able to fly with some very experianced pilots. There is no way to teach a 500 hour pilot to be a qualified capt. I don't care if you are a ERAU graduate or not. Its just not possible. Hands on experience is the best teacher.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

I agree, no way a 500hr pilot could be a "corporate" captain. Flights have too many variables, challenging destinations, pax that expect a smooth ride, etc..

BUT...I bet you can teach a foreigner with 500hrs to fly a Beech 1900 from KMCO-KFLL and back all day long. Dispatch tells him where and when to go, same routes, big airports...give him (well, make him buy) a fancy polyester uniform with some wings on it - and he will be darn PROUD to do it! - heck, he will be proud to do it and PAY for it..

for 50K I bet I can teach him (or a monkey) to do it all day..

..oh wait, somebody already does.

Like the Britishtool above said "who cares how many hours he has, as long as the LAD got a job"...

gotta love it!

 

[SCT]

ERAU says their 500hr. trained pilots can be a captian on a corporate aircraft???
That is a scary thought!

I don't even think a 500hr pilot should be a part of a crew on an aircraft that requires two pilots. And that is because you end up with one pilot and a person that is sitting in the right seat......not a professional flight crew!

Can you imagine the captian becoming incapacitated and a 500 hr pilot (in the right seat(not typed)) in a small jet with the CEO and his family on board flying the vor-a (at circling minimums) into TEB at night with the whole NY area stacked up because of thunderstorms? This would challenge an experienced crew.

 

[propilot1983]

Britishtool.....lol

 

[100LL... Again!]

CAPT-

You sign up for sex, everyone else thinks you got a hand job, but when you leave you realize that you have been sodomized (financially).

Anyone naive enugh to buy this load deserves what they get. I hope none of 'em get hired.

Better yet, let's turn them loose as PIC & SIC in large aircraft carrying cargo and let Darwin do the rest.

 

[DKM]

Were are you guys getting 500hr CAPT pilots from. CAPT Grads only get 250hrs of flight time. The other 250 is sitting in the back seat of the DA-40 "Observing", only a retard would put that in there logbook. The first grads when into the program with 400hr logged already so they do actually have 500 when they left. But all the ab initio students will leave with only 250 actual hrs behind the controls, of which only 170 or will be an actual aircraft (DA-40/PA44) the rest is SIM/FTD. Byt he way 100LL no one has hired a CAPT grad yet. In fact some are paying $35/hr for right seat commander time.