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Originally Posted by zmiller4  Argh.
You could train a monkey to pass an airline interview sim ride. It doesn't really matter--that's not really where you prove how capable a pilot you are. That happens on the job. The experience you gain as an instructor will be really, really valuable later in your career. |
Umm...not that I really want to get into this low time debate, because really this is the "interview" section, but when I interviewed, 5 people passed the sim ride out of 20. You'd be surprised how many people, reguardless of their hours, just plain suck at flying instruments.
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Originally Posted by DE727UPS And what these people don't know is that so much of the basics don't get covered in airline training. Getting through ground school and the sim are one thing. The real world is another. There is just no substitute for experience when you get to the real world. |
I couldn't agree with you more. My first two months online were extremely difficult. In the sim, we flew approaches at 160kts. Going into Boston, we are told very often to "keep the speed up until final". Hand flying an ILS approach at 200+kts in solid soup isn't something they prepared you for in training.
