"Command Interview" bunk
First off, I didn't had a problem going through the Command Interview. I DID, and STILL DO have an issue that everyone simply HAS to go through this silly tap-dance (which is so endemic in the ME region). Sorry to resort to acronyms, but...WTF?!
Aren't the line-checks, sim-checks, normal flights, etc, sufficient in the ME like they are elsewhere in the world to see how someone is coming along and ready for command?? Why are ME companies so fixated on this?
Why can't a professional aviator who happens to be working in the ME simply be slotted for upgrade training without having to go through this exercise (and the lame reason "because everyone else here had to!" is utter hog-wash!)??
Silly. That's all the “interview” is. Yet EVERYONE around the SandBox DOES it!
…Rant over.
~ R.D.