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Old 30th Dec 2009, 02:48
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spanner the cat
 
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I understand it's Ryanair's trainset.

The benefit of hiring a cadet is that you get a blank canvas: getting guys with X thousand hours to adapt to your SOPs is more intensive than starting from scratch.
Are you saying that once a pilot learns their first set of SOPs they aren't able to assimilate changes to those SOPs? I've flown different types and seen major SOP re-writes, and with applied use on the line it is a non-event (assuming the new SOPs aren't a crock). Perhaps an airline's culture is harder to absorb but SOP changes and development are part of the scenery at most (all?) airlines.

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Out of interest are your 737's fitted with the short field package?

donnlass
On the 737-800 a variety of reasons, the main one - rotating too quickly (more than 3 degrees per second). Some aircraft types even require a 2 stage rotation (not the 738 though).

Spanner

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