Chaps,
How can you possibly point the finger at the training department when it is in the safe hands of (as one trainer refered to him recently) the antichrist of flight training. He has done an outstanding job of slashing costs with no regard to quality, however he has improved my end of year bonuses dramatically. OK so there may be the downside that nobody wants to work in the training deprtment and we do not have enough trainers to train up F/O's for command, but look on the bright side, taking DEC's and giving them minimal training solves all that and allows us to have a bigger bonus at the end of the year.
Be Happy, cos I am.