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Old 28th Mar 2016, 05:17
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Gnadenburg
 
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It all sounds very idealistic Gnadenburg, and without doubt very well intentioned.

But let's take it to the extreme limit - let's not give the cadets any training at all beyond the absolute minimum regulatory requirements to be issued a licence, and let the line captains train them. Then we don't need all those extra trainers we can't get, and produces a 15% saving from the salary budget.

Job done.

Broadband Circuit.

I'm not following you. Possibly due to the fact our Cadets and MPL are in the RHS whereas yours are in the jump seat.

The scenario you are putting forward is quite close to the reality down at the Boathouse. Our guys have been processed onto the line without ever having hand-flown a jet and it has been suggested line captains take up the slack.

Conceptually, the MPL process is supposed to present a competent candidate with this skill set upon check to line. It has not and in my experience working with the cadets they have been badly let down and under trained. The training needs to be significantly extended instead of the present hope that the line, through some sort of osmosis process, will train a cadet eventually. Problem being at present, with a culture of fear, captains and training captains in some instances , fear exposing their operation to near ab initio jet training!

Extending the training would probably suggest the system is a budgetary failure and that delivering this skills set that the MPL promised requires more expensive training and high competency trainers ( of which KA has many but not enough ).
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