I think that the management should remember that a TRAINER is a person that can TRAIN people. It is very easy to EXAMINE someone, a lot harder to TRAIN and INSTRUCT. TOO MANY of the 'trainers' at EK are EXAMINERS who don't know how to train.
Many of our 'trainers' have never trained before, have not been formally taught how to train and so revert to what they have seen at EK during their initial training and upgrade. It is all very well to say how it is written in the book but much harder to actually notice what a trainee is actually doing wrong, then correct it. I would suggest that the STANDARDS dept should fly with all the trainers regularly, to make sure that they are doing is standard and not totally at odds to what others are doing (no names)!!!
The sooner we get away from 'knowledge is power' ie I'm a trainer and I know lots of stuff which you don't, so I'll belittle you and make you realise how little you know, to one where trainers train and give constructive ideas and thoughts,the better.
By the way we have some very good trainers out there, if you are lucky enough to fly with them you will realise how poor some of the others are!!
