Indian cadets... difficult to train?
No it is not difficult to train Indian cadets
I have some experience - and I have trained in Europe as in Asia hundred(s) of students-. But, at condition some rules are applied:
- first selection of students. It is too much demagogic to train any private student recruited only on money basis.
- secondly proper Ground and Flight Training with a team of real Civil Aviation Professional Instructors. Too much schools are suddenly flourishing and for 80% of them the standard is just a little bit over a Flying Club.
- A proper Licensing System: if you put low time hour pilot on the right seat of an Airliner, they must have been trained accordingly. The basic ICAO CPL/IR licence is based on a 50 years old concept and was perfect for DC3 or L1049... but is no more adapted for a Fly by Wire/ Glass cockpit A320 or B737NG. ....MCC, Jet Transition are required (Jet Orientation Training, Entry Level Training) before the Line Induction. In any case it requires a two years training AT LEAST. The CPL/IR is just a first brick in the training of a pilot. The ICAO/FAA licence standard is insufficient, it should be accompanied by an important Military or General Aviation experience. This is the reason of the JAR system organised in order to provide low Hour Ab Initio cadets, the deficient experience replaced by a tough training and an inflated theoretical knowledge. In our Asian regions, how often the commander is flying ALONE because the First Officer is insuficiently trained or has a a too poor experience? Some Airlines begin to realise the safety issue...
- Too much demagogic advertisings, too much students not properly selected and too much new Businesses in the Training Industry without a proper Civil Aviation background just looking for a new source of profit.
Training Pilot is Professional Education and the profit is slim (like in most of education fields).
===>Education is more a vocational activity than a real business.
Business men you have certainly better opportunities in some other fields, do not devastate this activity, let it in the hands of professionals....
- The MPL is an experimental licence and is not Today solution. Already some flaws are underlined. IFALPA is requesting a training in 100 weeks in order to respect the learning curve and if done properly the MPL is going to be a lot more expansive than a traditional scheme supplemented by MCC and transition to jet on a simulator...MPL is not (yet?) a mature solution.
Last edited by Passenger 07; 16th Dec 2007 at 02:29.