"BROKEN ENGLISH" You happen to be one of these doods who is happy to see an FO with no command experience shoved in the LH seat and be told to get on with the job and get assessed for it from word go. Cummon mate, give the guy a break. If you saw how shoddy the "training" he recieves before entering and while in the LHS it is no wonder there are so many failures. I can't believe anybody would enter his upgrade without preperation, if this is the case then he deserves to fail. However no EK training manuals clearly explain the do's and don'ts of the LHS, so yet again he cannot self teach himself the management skills from the LHS. This is where the "instructor should be pulling out all the stops to "train" the upgrader, rather than check him from word go. If he recieves the quality training he deserves and the recruiters have recruited him correctly as a budding Captain then there will be no problem.
Having said that, a lot of the few good trainers we have are not given a fair time to do this in due to the lack of allocated training time given by the company for these training sessions.
Lowering recruiting standards to fill the required number of pilots needs extra training time. Time = money, little time = poor training, poor training either means more failures or lowering of passing standards, poor operators means a higher risk of the enevitable that no airline wants to see!
I'm sorry but the operational degredation of new terrified (by the system) F/o s and DEC's joining the line is a fact today. A recipe for disaster....hopefully not. Lets watch this space.
A high morale Branson management module is urgently required in EK. Emirates have a wealth of well experienced instructors flying the line of which EK can tap into, this pool of experience trainers are are not interested due to the mentality and politics of the present dept. There has to be a radical change of thinking and policies for the better to attract these guys to join the training dept. No wonder there is always a lack of volunteers.
Ultimately the buck starts with recruitment, then training ... if those depts are in order, then standard of pilots we recieve on line will be of a much higher standard.
