Originally Posted by
heliski22
Hm...
I'm sure people don't willingly forget anything but I had the idea that all aspects of flying skills are perishable in the absence of practice, not just hand-flying on instruments, as has been much discussed here. If there is no opportunity to refresh, other than the next check, when does training take place?
Or is it that way simply because the training budget in the contract doesn't allow enough hours in the Sim?
It seems to take about 3 months to type rate a pilot fresh from CPL/IR school these days. For a 225 type rating, over 2 weeks groundschool, the 50 hrs in the sim for the type rating, 20 hrs for the operator conversion. Then LSTs and sim to aircraft adaptation. Plus of course all the ancillary stuff such as fire drill, WDD, CRM etc.
After that its 3 days training every 6 months, although of course a good bit of the 1st 6 months is spent with line training. Just how much more training do you think should be provided? You can never have too much training, but then some revenue work also has to be done from time to time!