Originally Posted by
cyrex
Except almost all recent major CX safety events (ie. 1200’ over Tsing Ma bridge)occurred with expat crew. So what’s the excuse there?
How many expat crew do we have, compared to locals? That might explain the statistical bias?
But in thruth, it's not expats vs locals. Rather experienced vs inexperienced.
From my understanding, the FO (PF) was low hours when hired and too afraid to disconnect the AP when it wasn't doing what he/she wanted.
I honestly don't know who the crew were, so would happily be corrected.
I have personally flown with tens of FOs who are too afraid to handfly.
Most of them hired with 0-250h. And a few of them hired with 5000h.
Now, experience only doesn't make a pilot good. But it certainly helps a bad pilot becoming a better one.
Our cadets come from a highly competitive pool, therefore we surely get the better ones. Unfortunately, I believe that academic grades are more important to recruiters than flying skills. Do they even do a sim ride or at least a compass test?
Years ago, getting into CX was hard. 2 interviews, one engine out sim ride, etc...
In the last 4 or 5 years, with the lowering of conditions of service, we didn't have such a great pool of experienced candidates, unfortunately.