"Has anyone of the lofty ranks considered what the process is if the DLR recommends an applicant to be removed from flying?? Any second opinions, therapy, training or the easy route?? What would the LH unions ( oops that nasty word) have in place for this situation."
Yup,
- training and/or
- therapy
- possible termination of FOs
BUT, the rules (how much training, when etc., who does the psycho for this stuff report to) have been strictly laid out between the company and the workers council in contracts.
Following of the rules is strictly enforced by the workers council AND they have the legal means (working laws) to do so.
So do the individual persons, by law.
Iīve seen it happen several times.
FOs have been terminated during/after initial training and CPs-in-training have been demoted back to FOs for the rest of their career (in this company...), others were "good enough" after the extra measures.
Albeit NOT because of another DLR-test!
Training/check pilots have the last say in this, and they inform the workers council as soon as "problem candidates" emerge as such.
Trust (that ever important notion) exists between the workers council and the training department and is the foundation for this modus operandi.
The pilots in GF donīt have the right (by law) of a "fair trial", I would imagine.
So this form of arbitrary psychological "testing" does pose a major threat to their personal lives and is grossly unfair to these professionals.
The training department should be the first to be tested!!