Originally Posted by
Longtimer
In a statement, the airline said "71 pilots on its fleet of 10 ATR planes will be required to do a test by the Civil Aeronautics Administration and a professional unit to make sure they are all qualified on their jobs."
Originally Posted by
training wheels
Errm, excuse me, but shouldn't that have been done before they were employed by the airline? A bit too late once they're on the line to find later that they're not "qualified on their jobs".
Well, you could say the same thing about annual/semi-annual checking: "No sense giving regular checkrides, should hvae been done before they were hired."
And it makes exactly the same amount of sense.