Originally Posted by yardman
...they recently changed the policy. You are in fact allowed to count your time at EK towards meeting the Accelerated Command requirements......and I know at least one person who was short a few hundred hours total time, and who now qualifies.
Let me get this straight:
You come to EK with a lot of command time under your belt but not enough
total time for Accel. Command.
So you sit in the RHS as FO for 6-9 months until you have built up more time
as a First Officer, so that your previous
command time will enable you to be promoted to Captain faster than otherwise????
And this makes sense? Lucky I'm not in management (or am I???) because I could never dream up such a dunder-headed, fcuked-up concept as that no matter how long I warmed a desk...
Anyway I'm still not sure why everyone is so happy with the Accel. program but so against the DEC program. Same end result as far as I'm concerned.
Qualified FOs being leap-frogged. The same guys who complain bitterly about DECs are happy to jump ahead via Accelerated Command. Smacks of hypocrisy.
Originally Posted by shockwave
Many high hour expat F/Os have failed command upgrades for good reasons
Agree with most of what you say but what is your idea of "many"? This is not the word on the street as I know it, myself.