Originally Posted by
fatbus
Why is it a training problem? Fleet designs and test the approachs.
Re: the training department. There should be massive warning signals being flagged for a company as large as EK that needs to drop the requirements to a mere 400hrs in the left seat to fill positions in what has been a prestigious role in aviation.
So is this a contributing factor in the EK incident? I'd say definitely. The system is now box ticking, with little or no development/reinforcement of skills. A pilot who has been able to get through the system by playing the right notes, now ends up in the training department playing the same tune, but their overall knowledge and real experience is lacking. Knowledge/skills/HowToGetOutOfaPickle is no longer being passed down because the day of box ticking robots is upon us in the department.
Emirates has a very real and serious problem, and unfortunately those who have caused it, can't see it.