Originally Posted by atpcliff
Quote: The actual training is also identical, it does not matter if you fly an RJ or a B777 and the training requirements are absolutely the same. There are some few exceptions.
This is not true AT ALL, and this is an area where the ATP requirement WILL help. The training at Northwest and Delta, for example, is much, much better than the training at Trans States Airlines, USA Jet Airlines, or Atlas Air. They are ALL -121 carriers, and the training is quite different at each. When I trained at TSA they were NOT AQP, and USAJet/Atlas are not now on AQP either.
]So ... what is it we are to glean from your reference that some airlines are “not” training under the authorizations of AQP? If you compare the training programs of two carriers, one training under the authorizations granted by AQP and the other one not, just exactly what differences are you expecting to see? You make the statement that the training at NWA or DAL being “much, much better” than the training at TSA. Not that I’m putting down the training at either airline, but the obvious question is then – how do you know? What makes these “better” programs better ... and where does the “not-so-good” program fail?