Two points
1: The uk licence until recently was greatly respected for its difficulty to get and the standards set in check ride tolerance.
Since JAR , however, there are three ways to get a job. The front door which costs money to open but everyone sounds like a good chap so they must be good (sstr). The back door which ryr and the like exploit thru loopholes validations, and being registered in dubln with the hq in stn, milking the gullible and desperate etc etc.
The third way is the patio doors which is a sstr system using the likes of Turkey (jar ha ha)where it is even possible to pay for the left seat line trg and check..
One such product is still managing to blag his way thru the uk companies, I think race card is the preferred methodology at the moment. A dangerous individual by all accounts and from personnal interaction.
2: BEN. The reason you may have had conflicting info on landing technique at XL is because you may have had one or two of the known total plonkers talking nonsense who could barely land themselves.
There was never any comittment to weeding these guys out regardless of how many tailstrikes, nervous breakdowns or hissy fits they had.
The best guys to have helped you had changed fleet have now moved onwards and upwards.Unlike the selected few mentioned above whose real employability outside their protected bubble is evident.
The biggest Irony of all. The head of CRM being the jumpiest most talentless LTC in the world and the grumpiest moodiest most difficult person (tosser) to fly with since early sabre days. Demonstrating a lack of appropiate skills that was a laughing stock and company joke. Didnt stop them lording it over poor saps like BEN though.
In short . Give this guy a break. A well as the good guys the trg system is full of blaggers, plonkers, arrogannt know alls.
This poor guy is probably at his wits end and all we can do is sink the knife in deeper.
Hardly fair when in my experience partially alluded to above , there but for the grace of god, luck and timed served go alot of todays current and useless trainers.
