American interviews and class dates
01-11-2014, 01:07 PM
#581
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Joined APC: Mar 2011
Position: A319/20/21 FO
Posts: 292
AA has done a good job in the last decade with both training, and with check airmen.
Usually, an airline's school house and CKA group tends to form a "good ol' boys club", where it's not how good you can instruct, it's who you know, and it can become stagnant and cliquish.
Somehow, they got it right and the bad CKA are 99% gone... and the training in all fleets has really improved. This is why I was a bit upset at my last recurrent when they were saying the US training personnel were coming on strong and trying to take over.
I have no doubt we need to adopt and import certain US things, and the list would include the reserve system, non-revving, quite a few others. But the AA schoolhouse is NOT broken, and is as good as I've seen it in 20+ years.
Usually, an airline's school house and CKA group tends to form a "good ol' boys club", where it's not how good you can instruct, it's who you know, and it can become stagnant and cliquish.
Somehow, they got it right and the bad CKA are 99% gone... and the training in all fleets has really improved. This is why I was a bit upset at my last recurrent when they were saying the US training personnel were coming on strong and trying to take over.
I have no doubt we need to adopt and import certain US things, and the list would include the reserve system, non-revving, quite a few others. But the AA schoolhouse is NOT broken, and is as good as I've seen it in 20+ years.
I think the concern on the US side is philosophy. The gripes include the length of checklists at AA and some of the old-school philosophy (captains starting engines and the like) behind the design of procedures.
That said, all of this is WAY down my list of worries about this merger (which really aren't too many to begin with).
01-11-2014, 02:51 PM
#583
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Joined APC: Aug 2013
Position: C-130J
Posts: 75
Also, they foot stomped that you need to put as much data on your app as possible. Use the attachments feature if necessary. They use different filters every time they pull apps so the more data you have, the better chance your app may get pulled.
01-11-2014, 03:33 PM
#585
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Joined APC: Aug 2012
Position: Cap'n
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I wonder… I do know the "position/description of duties" sections under employment doesn't allow much room to describe everything or add any significant data there… a short sentence at best.
01-11-2014, 06:25 PM
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Position: Window seat
Posts: 5,482
The presented did not say it was the "minimum". He said it was the official number but he believed, in his personal opinion, that it would be more(I agree with him).
He stated that AA is training capacity constrained.
Personal observation - Drilling in the small parking lot, between the sim building and the ground school building, last month and the drillers said it would be for a sim building extension. SimP said he thought it was enough room for 4 sims. Size seems correct.
01-11-2014, 08:09 PM
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Position: DFW 737 Captain
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The presented did not say it was the "minimum". He said it was the official number but he believed, in his personal opinion, that it would be more(I agree with him).
He stated that AA is training capacity constrained.
Personal observation - Drilling in the small parking lot, between the sim building and the ground school building, last month and the drillers said it would be for a sim building extension. SimP said he thought it was enough room for 4 sims. Size seems correct.
He stated that AA is training capacity constrained.
Personal observation - Drilling in the small parking lot, between the sim building and the ground school building, last month and the drillers said it would be for a sim building extension. SimP said he thought it was enough room for 4 sims. Size seems correct.
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