Originally Posted by
RAT 5
[I]IMHO the pay for apprentices is too high at entry point. If the pay was reduced, drastically, for the first coupe of years, until the apprenticeship was served, (and 100% Pay 2 Fly was disallowed) it might weed out the wrong stuff.
No, it would just cut Your pay as well.
Originally Posted by
RAT 5
People like the above, IMHO, would not be suitable command material, i.e. the sort of guy you want up front on a bad-hair day.
Agree but there are many ways to spot it regardless of the money.
Originally Posted by
RAT 5
All this talk about raw data causing reduced safety etc. BS. In 80's, before EFIS, raw data was the norm, other than an ILS. That was the only time the FD was coupled to the approach. You might be able to set up a HDG + V/S for an NPA using FD, but that was too distracting. A visual was the norm, when allowed, or as in Greece, necessary. Raw data was the only way. Why did the advent of EFIS stop that behaviour? Because DFO's, CP's HOT's said so. Why?
I would say because accidents have happened rather than some DFO's specific wills.