Psa Washout??

[350DRIVER]

Any 328 drivers that can confirm or deny that this past training class of 6 people ONLY 2 passed.?? I was talking to a friend and he mentioned something along these lines that their were quite a few that washed out of this past training class.?! I am just curious because we have an Airways 57/67 guy that is furloughed and currently flying for us that said the training was very difficult and intense. Sounds like some info is not correct since I would assume that the class was alot larger in size.

Thanks

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[Flex]

My class a few years ago had the same. We started with six, lost one in groundschool, and then three of the five failed the first ride. They were all retrained and flew the line. PSA is very intense on the training, more so than any place I have seen, however, this is not really a good thing. They made us memorise "centiscopes" of fuel, strange off the wall things. Some of it was good, alot wasn't. I think they have something like 26 memory items or something like that now. The CRJ had 25, the DC8 had 15. The plane I'm flying now has 11. I'm looking fowards to the day when I don't have any. I remember that PSA also did circling approaches in the simulator, and we weren't approved for circling approaches in the op specs. They told us that this was for the type rating, which none of us were getting, but when I was at other airlines, no circling approaches were required for the type ratings. The old POI at PSA, Man..., something, was somewhat of a picky guy. He wanted a "perfect" checkride for those guys getting types. Good news is once you are on line, the recurrent stuff is easy, the flying is great, not a bad regional airline if you can handle the low pay. The plane is wonderful. Upgrade...keep your fingers crossed and hit the books. Don't forget all the centiscopes.

 

[350DRIVER]

Thanks Flex- Yeah, the furloughed Airways 57/67 first officer I fly with now said the PSA training was alot more difficult than the Airways 57/67 course at Airways. Unreal.......He also mentioned that you needed to know what part of the prop heats up first and the cycle and other bizzare details about the prop assembly and heating.



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[DC8Driver]

Hey Flex, who did you drive the 8 for?

 

[dorkdriver]

psa

things are changing at psa

 

[DIAMONDDD]

"How much does the rear turbine bearing weigh?"

"What color are the wires leading to the inner pads for the prop heat?"

"Umm........white?"

"NO!! They are OFF-WHITE! Get outa here, we don't need slackers here!"

 

[irapilot]

Some real interview questions I have been asked:

"If the flaps stick down, where is the control box and how do you remove it in the field?" (am not a A&P)

“We fly our own minimums into Aspen, are you a good enough pilot to do what we do to get our pax into Aspen?"

“We expect the crew to share a room on the road to save money, is that ok with you?” (for a job flying a 15 mil. a/c)

 

[tarheel87]

PSA failures unite!

My partner and I were sent home from the sim two weeks ago! What a waste of my time and their money. I can not say I flew like Chuck Yeager but I was never given the chance to take my check-ride after ten lessons. 3 1/2 years down the tubes.
Good Luck to future applicants.

 

[FurloughedAgain]

Ouch!

Can we ask what happened?

 

[tarheel87]

what happened?

Well to make a long story short... at the end of Sim lesson #9 the instructor said we sucked bad!!! Ofcourse other instructors will give us a honest chance; YEA RIGHT! Lesson 10 my partner flew her worst , I was maybe OK. Sim session #11 (usually check-ride) was treated as a practice check-ride. Next day we were told to go home and call the office. Why throw away $15K worth of sim per student at the end? You would have thought we had failed a drug test. This maybe why USAIR is going under. I'm not upset just disappointed in what I thought was a good company.