Originally Posted by
SMOC
Exactly, base training, while great fun is simply outdated and CX would have got rid of it years ago if they could. The HKCAD is in the dark ages as expected of a post '97 civil servant operation.
The amount of crew who end up back in the simulator post base training is testimony to the fact that belting around in the sim for what's needed is the way ahead. If that's 100+ circuits then that's that sadly. Base training can't fix it.
Maybe if CX hired and paid for actual pilots with experience, then base training could be done away with. Sadly, we hire cadets who have no business flying widebody airliners.
My base training back in the day was a formality for all five of us, except the one pilot from GA, who was on his second hack at it and still did horrendously awful.