Originally Posted by
dr dre
If you want to believe it's that easy to simply perform that action go ahead. There's significant training and operational line readiness issues now. You're talking about a group of people who haven't been in the particular aircraft for years and haven't been in an aircraft at all for what will probably be over 12 months. Whilst one pilot in those circumstances, away from aviation for years, could come back on line into an environment where their colleagues have been active on the fleet in the meantime, you're talking about retraining en masse a significant proportion of the fleet, to pilots who have been out of the loop for a long time.
Every Stood down Pilot is that same position. Much retraining required for all. So many Ex SH pilots in LH now with thousands of 737 hours. A considerable amount newly trained to the 787. CASA is not going to ‘Stop this’ hypothetical outcome. I am pointing out that the cost issue TLS proclaims is a fallacy. Cheaper to CR a junior SH than a more senior LH. And the retraining can will be kicked well down the road into another fiscal year.