china pilot medical failures
USMC probe posted some real wisdom, as did some of the others.
This is China. You can accept it and work within it, or fight it. The latter will not work. You will never understand it.
The comment about first officers is absolutely true. The whole learning process here is about memorization. Not understanding. Some are natural pilots and a pleasure to fly with.. Others...well...not so much. If the plane was going straight down they could tell you with 100% accuracy that you have exceeded Vne, but not realize you are going to hit the ground.
A bit of thread drift there. Most companies have handlers to walk you through the medical.. It is a bad sign if it takes you the full two days to complete your medicals. Means you are on your own. We are typically in and out in a few hours..butting into line is also a Chinese cultural tradition....you are next...right after me.
As to the get rid of you syndrome.. Yes.. It is done. Our company does a non medical version of it.
But to allow someone to save face it is better if the do not pass a medical than to be told they are just incompetent or not working well in the system. Not agreeing with it. But it is the way it is..and you must learn to accept that nothing is as it seems if you want to work here.
Our company once had our AOC suspended because our CEO, who is an honorable man, refused to have dinner with a corrupt senior CAAC official.
Cost us a lot of money until we got it straightened out.
I cant over emphasize..It is the way it is here..It is not the US, UK, australia, or any other country. The culture is different.