G I have always taken Beelzebub as a respected trainer in a legacy Carrier who likes the product his choice I prefer alot more hand foot skills and experence.
He wants a blank bit of paper when coming into the training deptment. So much of a blank bit of paper they don't really have much clue about anything so you can teach them what ever you like.
They are also in the enviroment that a low houred pilot will always be stuck next a very experenced Captain who is in the main significantly older than them. This gets rid of most cockpit gradient issues. It won't matter that they won't have a clue for a long period because they won't get a sniff at the LHS for double figure years and possibly 1000's of hours as well.
They are also in the enviroment that the SOP's are more water tight than a ducks arse. And they are flying hardware which is suited to the magenta line borg. You can read numerous threads on here bitching about various SOP's being changed just to protect the company from low houred cadets. Also alot of carriers have quite strict limits based on experence about what conditions the FO can actually operate the plane in. For example I saw one card which stated that under 1000 hours they wern't allowed to land in more than 10knts xwind and no tail winds. 1000hrs on type and your up for the LHS in some companys.
Now the problem is that these carriers don't actually require enough of these pilots to sustane the amount of training places availabe or for that matter enough capacity that if they should require in the future that there will be sufficent availble to suit thier needs.
If there arn't enough people willing to self fund these courses the option won't be available in the future for them to have a choice how there cadets are trained unless they invest a significant outlay. Also there arn't pilots sitting on standby without work waiting to go, trained the way they want them.
Vertical intergration is just a fancy way of saying we ignore everything apart from getting them ready to join the magenta line Borg. Miss out all the airmanship stuff to do with flying singles and piston twins, just focus on being able to have the mangment skills to operate an automated flight deck. Then things like AF447 happen, which if they don't happen very often is an acceptable risk.
In essance if someone else is paying for these courses or has a deal going go for it. But if your self financing don't subidise the big boys training costs.
Last edited by mad_jock; 4th June 2012 at 13:48.