It’s our standards here are just ****, that’s across many parts of this industry.
Hmm, that statement right there probably says straight away you have never worked overseas or done foreign conversions or similar training. If you think Australian training standards are bad you ain't seen nothing outside Australia. Not saying we are the top dogs, but there are many worse places including euroland in general. The difference is do we need such high standards or not, ie, the space shuttle mentality. I'm not saying foreign training is terrible all round either, but standards are very much variable across the board and pilot skill and technique is still very much what they are exposed to and face rather than specifically the training received. Modern Jet operations are safe because of the Automation combined with SOPs, the danger has been bleached from the system to make it fairly straight forward for a low time pilot to cope with most things, until of course the unexpected or untrained happens. The Air France 330 accident highlights that, if the SOP is safe, good outcomes, if the SOP is flawed, bad outcomes.