The "real" Ryanair
Joined: Nov 2004
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From: Snowland
I know I shouldn't but I must....
In my humble opinion one should be very carefully talking of a big group of individuals
There ARE plenty of good young captains with less than average experience the problem is that the trends move towards that you fly for two years than get a command.....and that's just wrong!
this goes for more companies than RYR
Just because the JAA/CAA sais that the atpl becomes warm at 1500 hours doesn't mean that you are ready. Anyone who has got their instructor rating has probably got the scary feeling of realizing of how little one knew before.
Age.....always tricky but I still claim that 25 years of age is young, very young. It doesn't mean that you can't be suitable but it's very little life experience. There is such a rush to learn everything at once these days. It might not be the best way.
A lot of the old crusty pilots I fly with might ahve some (to me)odd ideas of how to do things but everytime I ask it always turns out that there is a perfectly good and quiter often scary story that expains it. There is a risk that a company with exclusively young and "inexperinced" captins and training captians might not have experiencied everything yet, thus have less experience to share.
Being rushed into a position where you are ultimately responsible for everything is not very good. Is there really that much of a rush.
Someone mentioned statistics?
For any companies that have existed less than five years it's prettty hard to say that it's safe because that they haven't ever had an accident. Also safety is more than accidents example:
I sometimes see a/c making a wide turn onto the runway rolling a while and then applying power. On some runways that's not really safe. If they had a an RTO they would find themself of the runway and if there is a ravin there.....well.
But guess what RTO's are rather rare so unless nothing happens nooneknowes and the airline is safe...or?
Ok, that's it....shoot me down!
In my humble opinion one should be very carefully talking of a big group of individuals
There ARE plenty of good young captains with less than average experience the problem is that the trends move towards that you fly for two years than get a command.....and that's just wrong!
this goes for more companies than RYR
Just because the JAA/CAA sais that the atpl becomes warm at 1500 hours doesn't mean that you are ready. Anyone who has got their instructor rating has probably got the scary feeling of realizing of how little one knew before.
Age.....always tricky but I still claim that 25 years of age is young, very young. It doesn't mean that you can't be suitable but it's very little life experience. There is such a rush to learn everything at once these days. It might not be the best way.
A lot of the old crusty pilots I fly with might ahve some (to me)odd ideas of how to do things but everytime I ask it always turns out that there is a perfectly good and quiter often scary story that expains it. There is a risk that a company with exclusively young and "inexperinced" captins and training captians might not have experiencied everything yet, thus have less experience to share.
Being rushed into a position where you are ultimately responsible for everything is not very good. Is there really that much of a rush.
Someone mentioned statistics?
For any companies that have existed less than five years it's prettty hard to say that it's safe because that they haven't ever had an accident. Also safety is more than accidents example:
I sometimes see a/c making a wide turn onto the runway rolling a while and then applying power. On some runways that's not really safe. If they had a an RTO they would find themself of the runway and if there is a ravin there.....well.
But guess what RTO's are rather rare so unless nothing happens nooneknowes and the airline is safe...or?
Ok, that's it....shoot me down!
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From: HKG
This thread has got some really arrogant, ignorant contributions. I have made no comments about anybodies capabilities because I don't know.
However,
"I sometimes see a/c making a wide turn onto the runway rolling a while and then applying power. On some runways that's not really safe. If they had a an RTO they would find themself of the runway and if there is a ravin there.....well."
How do you know where their T/O performance calculations were based on? These sort of assumptions reflect inexperienced pilots whatever their age.
However,
"I sometimes see a/c making a wide turn onto the runway rolling a while and then applying power. On some runways that's not really safe. If they had a an RTO they would find themself of the runway and if there is a ravin there.....well."
How do you know where their T/O performance calculations were based on? These sort of assumptions reflect inexperienced pilots whatever their age.
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From: You Name It.
good luck with Ryan air
