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Originally Posted by JEP Congrats on the training so far Steve. Question though. If I recall Stan and you started training on the same day yet he is already flying. I know it's two different companies but what has been the cause of the biggest delays? Is it schedulnig, sims down, etc....? Is everyone getting pushed back or have you just hit the (un)luck of the draw? Are they trying to push too many people through at the same time? |
Part of it is that PCL gives us a TON of sim sessions. It seemed like Stan's first few sim sessions were the equivalent of our CPTs or the FTDs at XJT. We get three CPTs and then the 10 sim sessions. It's actually a lot of training, but hey, I'll take it! For the most part, my sim partner and I have been the unlucky ones this round. Our class was 30 people (counting the sim instructors in our ground school), so that's 15 sets of 10 to schedule. We also had a few guys in the class ahead of us bust their checkrides, so they had to re-scheduled. Add to that the upgrade classes and re-currents, and it's pretty tight considering we only have 3 simulators running 20 hours a day. XJT has the option of sending guys over to another bank of sims at Houston-Hobby. For some reason, I guess we don't have access to any other CRJ sims. The other guys that started Sim #1 the same day as us are already done and have their checkrides scheduled this weekend. We just got hosed. I'd say that yeah, they are trying to push too many people through at the same time. Our first round of guys from my class aren't even done, and I'm seeing guys from the class behind us starting. The way our schedule was SUPPOSED to run was 3 on 3 off, 3 on 3 off, 4 on 4 off, then checkrides. Some of the guys behind me have eleven days off, so that sucks.
Cristl, #1 Don't know Sue Lein, so I guess not #2 Where the hell have you been?
Alchemy, Our sim sessions are a one hour pre-brief, 4 hour sessions (2 as PF and 2 as PNF) and a one hour de-brief.
ERfly, we've mainly had the same instructor, but switching instructors allowed me to get the second viewpoint that fixed my stalls. I'm a firm believer of getting at least two or three different viewpoints from other instructors. Even as a CFI, I'd send my students up with other instructors to make sure I hadn't missed anything or to try to fix problems they were having.
At least you can start to see the see the light.
And yeah, what about that Stan guy? Gets a new gig and go's and forgets about the rest of us....
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