View Full Version : Future Airline Pilots - Selection and Training
fireflybob
20th Jul 2010, 22:21
Is it time now for a Centres of Excellence for the selection and training of future airline pilots?
Would there be safety and cost benefits if airlines took a more pro-active approach to where their new pilots are coming from and the quality of the training?
Piltdown Man
24th Jul 2010, 20:34
I'm afraid that is a hopelessly naive question. The front right hand seat is now a profit centre. The average airline doesn't give a stuff who sits there just so long as they pay for the privilege. Unfortunately, there are also too many :mad: who are actually willing to cough up. And the scum in := and such know this and take advantage of the current market. So, no. There is no point in a Centre for Excellence all the time pilots self-select themselves by coming up with the bickies.
As regards safety; just as long as there are not too many smoking holes directly attributable to the current system there will be no change. As for cost, it pays the airline to have plonkers under training. The more training they have to have, the more the airline makes. Remember, the plonkers pay and they won't get a job and very fortunately, they displace someone whom they would have to otherwise pay.
A MacJob is now looking rather competitive. By the time you get to "four stars" you will have a regular wage, no debt and all the company food you can eat. Compare that with two-three year F/O in a modern airline.
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Denti
24th Jul 2010, 20:46
I guess we will see two different ways to go about it. One is the cheap airlines that use the right hand seat as a profit center wherever working law allows that, the other is other airlines that will continue to screen applicants very very thoroughly indeed and train them themselves bringing them up exactly to their own specifications with at least partly payed for training.
If the economy doesn't dip into a second recession we gonna see a shortage of experienced pilots pretty soon, which will not translate into a shortage at the entry level though as there are always enough young eager ones that cough up the money without a certain job prospect.
victorc10
24th Jul 2010, 21:45
Piltdown man would appear to be a hopelessly naive person!
fireflybob
25th Jul 2010, 16:36
The average airline doesn't give a stuff who sits there just so long as they pay for the privilege.
Piltdown Man, maybe that is true with some companies but what about the insurance companies?
...what about the insurance companies?
The yearly premium is adjusted accoredingly....and, it's not all that much difference.
Fact.