An interesting (training?) flight CX9407
Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Rockytop, Tennessee, USA
Posts: 5,660
Originally Posted by olegius
Are they practicing touch and go in MFM? Cannot add a link as I don't have enough posts (long time lurker) but still curious.
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Hong Kong
Posts: 368
Originally Posted by arse
I would have thought this crisis would have been the final nail in the coffin for Base Training.
i believe the company are still doing quite a number of command courses this year.
That doesn't sound like a company expecting to end up in a coffin.
Join Date: Dec 1998
Posts: 813
Don't doubt CX will survive. It has deep pockets, and if need be, can sell quite a few more aircraft to get through the rest of this year/next. The real question is what will the value of the job of pilot be worth when the management have finished with their "adjustment" ? My suspicion is that they won't lose the opportunity of a corporate lifetime to rejig their entire cost structure. I think the GMA's recent letter gives an indication of where they are heading. We'll find out soon enough....
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Originally Posted by LongTimeInCX
why?
i believe the company are still doing quite a number of command courses this year.
That doesn't sound like a company expecting to end up in a coffin.
i believe the company are still doing quite a number of command courses this year.
That doesn't sound like a company expecting to end up in a coffin.
The coffin reference had nothing to do with the current company challenges. Rather, the outdated Base Training requirement.
As for why CX is continuing training in the current environment, well that is a completely different subject.
Join Date: Mar 2002
Location: Here & there
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Originally Posted by arse
Why? Because CX has been talking about getting rid of Base Training for many years. Base Training is considered nothing more than a "jolly"; an ineffective and expensive exuberance!
Join Date: Jul 2000
Location: Smogsville
Posts: 1,428
Exactly, base training, while great fun is simply outdated and CX would have got rid of it years ago if they could. The HKCAD is in the dark ages as expected of a post '97 civil servant operation.
The amount of crew who end up back in the simulator post base training is testimony to the fact that belting around in the sim for what's needed is the way ahead. If that's 100+ circuits then that's that sadly. Base training can't fix it.
The amount of crew who end up back in the simulator post base training is testimony to the fact that belting around in the sim for what's needed is the way ahead. If that's 100+ circuits then that's that sadly. Base training can't fix it.
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Polar Route
Posts: 2,009
Originally Posted by SMOC
Exactly, base training, while great fun is simply outdated and CX would have got rid of it years ago if they could. The HKCAD is in the dark ages as expected of a post '97 civil servant operation.
The amount of crew who end up back in the simulator post base training is testimony to the fact that belting around in the sim for what's needed is the way ahead. If that's 100+ circuits then that's that sadly. Base training can't fix it.
The amount of crew who end up back in the simulator post base training is testimony to the fact that belting around in the sim for what's needed is the way ahead. If that's 100+ circuits then that's that sadly. Base training can't fix it.
My base training back in the day was a formality for all five of us, except the one pilot from GA, who was on his second hack at it and still did horrendously awful.
