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Old 4th Oct 2020, 06:34
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Lookleft
 
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The one sitting on the LHS? Some airlines are almost all cadet recruitment based, LH springs to mind. I think they can fly planes.
They also have a subsidiary called Germanwings. I'm not sure if their cadets went through the same program as Lufthansa but if you are looking for an example I wouldn't be using Lufthansa.

Do they respond well to constructive criticism and strive to improve themselves? Do they have established decision making processes? Do they bark out orders or lead from example? Would you want to spend hours locked up in a flight deck with them? Do they show hazardous attitudes? Are they argumentative, it’s my way or the highway?
Just based on my experience, I get a lot more of the negative answers to your questions from the cadet F/O's I fly with than the direct entry pilots. Most of them are very good but even they admit that they didn't know how little they knew when they were first CTL.
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