Originally Posted by
Global Aviator
Check flight for suitability, surely you don’t pay an interviewing candidate?
Said candidate passes check flight, employed and give them the ICUS needed, ok so what is the cost? Ok yes a second pilots wage and time. No different to an airline, ya join ya fly with training Captains, ya get let loose. The cost of business.
Oh and we didn’t expect a perfect performance in a 210 check flight for a 150 hour pilot. It was more about attitude, preparation and ability to listen and learn, again pretty similar to an airline sim interview ride. If check pilot said yes then we would invest the time, funnily pilots rarely left unless it was for bigger better higher faster, ie the airlines.
You'd put someone ICUS on a check flight with paying passengers as part of an interview?? Surely at the very least a check flight would include some emergency procedures...in which case there would be a cost associated with that.
What I meant was are there really still pilots who are stupid enough to do unpaid ICUS?
So there is a cost, the cost of two pilots on a single pilot operation. Airlines are a two crew operation and they would practice emergency procedures on the sim, so not sure how they can be compared.