Is any of this fed back to the agencies, and thence to the airline?
Or is it put in the ‘too difficult’ tray?
They must change their ways, or will be very short of pilots!
Pure and simple...they don't want foreigners there although they need them, because they can't find enough pilots and another reason which cannot be mentioned!
that's why they pay a lot of money,The system itself is crazy.
No credit is given to you for your experience and your proficiency during training.
When a foreign pilot does something wrong then the authority will require all the foreign pilots to go through another Caac check,that's what happened recently after Xiamen air problem in Manila.
That check will be used either by the airlines to get rid of all the foreign pilots"not liked "for any reason or just to fail a certain number of foreign pilots to make the authorty statistics matching,fact!
But they screw also some local guys for the above mentioned reasons
Some chinese instructors category C or D(our senior tre basically) failed their sim check and are now First Officers,what a humiliation!
Agencies can't do anything because if you try to explain that the system is F...ed the company will reply"in China we do things our way and it(apparently)works!
They will never find enough pilots to fly their planes,it is a fact.For pilots who last there 5 years 50 of them left before their contracts ended.
Your contract is "renewed"every 6 months after your sim check,your medical or your line check.forget about 5 years and so on.There is no job stability like the Western world.
Go check now what is the Caac sim check profile and laugh.First a database of 300 oral questions before the sim to which they have recently added maintenance checklist questions.
Flying part....Decompression with pm incapacitated,runway wet,35 kts xwind ,ndb raw data and so on.they just forgot to put a missile avoidance manouvre
If you make a mistake listed in the "Captain sim checklist"you are done.
Nothing impossible of course but it is just their aviation system which is 30 years behind ours.
Of course it also depends from who is the guy at the back...everything is very subjective and then we go back to the fact that you must be liked and please your boss but still your contract tenure goes every 6 months.
I hope to have given to you another way to see things to be totally aware before starting your journey there.