Originally Posted by
JAYTO
And the latest email to the training department. Effective immediately.
Spending the last how many years beating everyone with a stick and telling them if they don't like it they can leave. Only to see the experienced guys leave. How to fix the problem? Make the stick bigger.
J.
I have just read that email. If the author really believes what he has written then my respect for him has gone the same way as our safety record - collapsed!
At a time when empathy, understanding and support are needed they have, instead, chosen to increase the fear factor and use a bigger stick. Isn't that one of the main causal factors of the various incidents and accidents recently? It is like trying to put out a fire by throwing more petrol at it.
This will not end well and is, imho, the worst possible way to deal with the very issues that experienced line operators have been warning of for years. We need to be pulling together not increasing the division between the Checking department and the line pilots.
Before the Checking department decides to conduct no notice line checks on crews, perhaps it should first take a long, hard, inwards look and address the culture of fear that is perceived by the vast majority of line pilots.
It might then ask itself why so many experienced Checkers have left and are continuing to leave the Checking dept, why experienced line Captains with solid wide body TRAINING experience on their resumes are not applying for the Checking positions and why (with no disrespect towards the new Checkers) the vast majority of new Checkers have little time in the LHS with EK and are applying only because they think it will look good on their resumes and aid their departure to pastures new.
This is a bad situation and the email from SVPFT will make things worse.