What I'd like to know is if anyone on here thinks anything else could change it? e.g. people power, forming a group against it, lobbying someone (God knows who), ambushing young men as they walk into TRO with a big cheque....any suggestions? e.g. is there more positive action that could be taken as opposed to ranting on PPRuNe?
Quickest way to kill it is for TRE's to refuse to train them, ideally at the TRTO but if not, when they arrive at ops for day 1 of their training.
There was a statistic banded about recently, i think it was in the Log mag and it went something like this
In the USA, the regional carriers are responsible for 75% of the flying and 100% of fatal accidents. (Hopefully someone will produce the exact statistic.)
The regionals have a constant supply of new and inexperienced Pilots taking the RHS...... presumably, there are people that are relatively inexperienced taking the LHS, flying with an inexperienced occupant in the RHS. A recipe for disaster........ and the above statistic seems to verify it.
If you now add, no pay / low pay to the equation, potentially you have inexperienced crews flying, some of which are possibly holding down 2 jobs to pay off their debts and are arriving at work fatigued, poor and desparate to make ends meet.
On top of its many other dangers, P2F is a way of eroding the experience levels in the flight deck. Its simply NOT acceptable for an airline, bean counter, DFO or any other person to justify this with, "well we have an experienced Training Captain on board"
