HeavyWrenchFlyer
Whilst I don't necessarily disagree with you, I also don't accept things are that bad and I have seen real improvements in the past 2 years or so.
You seem to experiencing something different to me on the flight deck, so to help me visualize what you are experiencing, can you please give some examples of where;
1. The manuals, particularly the FCOM3/FCTM, is insufficient. Under what circumstances do you find vagueness or ambiguity?
2. What examples have you seen where a checker has operated in contravention of a published procedure.
Not sure what you mean by this....
"Do you realize there's no training given or standards to be met before becoming a trainer or checker here?!? One is somehow deemed fit somewhere behind closed doors and knighted..."
Apart from a thorough review of your file, possibly a training assessment flight by a Management pilot, then a Ground school/sim package then a number of sectors as a trainer-under supervision followed by a training check on a real stude.... then periodic standardization checks by Mangagement pilots/CAD (I observed one of these first hand and even my b@lls ached)... I suppose you are right there is no training or standardization.
If you object to the fact you have to be "liked" by the Fleet office, particularly the Chief Pilot, before you become a C&T, then I concede there is a large element of nepotism in the system..... but then again the buck stops with the Chief Pilot as regards Training Standards on his fleet, so can you blame him for personally scrutinizing his C&T staff.