Alchemy
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- Dec 22, 2003
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Wow Mr. About Time, it's amazing you aren't director of Training Department by now! Guess which people in my newhire class had the most retraining events, longest IOE's, and scored most poorly on the indoc and systems writtens? The 600-800 hr newhires you say? WRONG.
It was the middle aged pilots who'd been flying boxes in recips or been switch bitches in a citation or something similair. The young instructors for the most part fared well. The strongest trainees were obviously the few that had flown prior 121 or had a 91/135 job where they actually got to FLY the airplane.
Now am I saying I was gods gift to jet pilots when they slung in me the right seat of the ERJ at 800 hrs and asked me to fly a Love field turn out of IAH with icing and thunderstorms? No, far from it. If the IOE check airman had a heart attack at went comatose on the takeoff roll could I have safely swung the thing back around for an ILS and landing? Definitely. Does having 800 hrs and being 22 years old mean I include the words "like", "dude", and "totally" in every sentence in the cockpit? No. Is trying to predict a pilot's skill and learning ability based solely on his or her age and the number in the back of their logbook a foolish way to run an airline hiring department? Yes.
Expressjet looks for the total package in the interview....they do a pretty good job of screeing the flakes and weirdos. Yet somehow I managed to slip through their defenses....interesting.
It was the middle aged pilots who'd been flying boxes in recips or been switch bitches in a citation or something similair. The young instructors for the most part fared well. The strongest trainees were obviously the few that had flown prior 121 or had a 91/135 job where they actually got to FLY the airplane.
Now am I saying I was gods gift to jet pilots when they slung in me the right seat of the ERJ at 800 hrs and asked me to fly a Love field turn out of IAH with icing and thunderstorms? No, far from it. If the IOE check airman had a heart attack at went comatose on the takeoff roll could I have safely swung the thing back around for an ILS and landing? Definitely. Does having 800 hrs and being 22 years old mean I include the words "like", "dude", and "totally" in every sentence in the cockpit? No. Is trying to predict a pilot's skill and learning ability based solely on his or her age and the number in the back of their logbook a foolish way to run an airline hiring department? Yes.
Expressjet looks for the total package in the interview....they do a pretty good job of screeing the flakes and weirdos. Yet somehow I managed to slip through their defenses....interesting.