"Not only to the bean counters. Speaking to several TRI's in my company, they seem to prefer 300hr ab-initio's and young age as well. Reason? Learning someone good habits is much easier and safer than de-learning bad habits created elsewhere. The older the candidate, the more difficult the process becomes."
You working for ezy? Although I can understand our training depts reasoning here, reality is slowly creeping up on us... As a matter of fact our incident rates have been on the increase for some time now, I have no figures on this but apparently its been enough to get managements attention.
Lots of low hour first officers. Higher standard required for internal upgrade then for direct entry captains (despite the fact that there is 2-3 years worth of training files on internal upgrades) - still lots of DE CPs.... You go figure...
And before I get shot down, Im not saying DE CPs are not up to the task as a "group", but I have seen some "alarming" cases. We have also lowered our requirements for our DE CPs over the past years...
Standing by for incoming.
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