CaptJackSparrow

Absolutely ridiculous. We have new and inexperienced captains and FOs coming online and pairing them with weak PSIs is not the thing we need to be doing right now. Top that off with punishment for adding fuel and it's not an ideal situation. If anything they should be required to add a couple hundred pounds of fuel for new captains, but that's a separate argument. The bigger question is: Why are we bean counting in places that we shouldn't be when the economy and AAG is doing well at this time?

Grabo172

How do we find out the results of the TDY/Home Based assignments?

OldBiff

Paying guys who could be flying the line to teach canned SIM events is a waste of resources, I get that. Cost cutting helps the bottom line more than revenue growth. But you can’t do that AND cut the number of hours for IOE like they’ve been trying to do (and succeeding for the most part). That training has to come from somewhere.

bigtime209

They will send out an HI6 with the results.

CaptJackSparrow

I understand that but is it worth the cost of watering down the quality of training? It's not like there's a money flow problem right now...just seems more like an attack on our pilot group from management playing games with us once again than it is a real business decision.

HardLemonade

PSIs suck harder than a $5 *****. There's no question there. From the training department perspective, it's not as a nefarious plan as you might think. They're wanting a core group of instructors who will be around long term. Line pilots flow. PSIs stay until they croak.

They want to go back to a time, before we were flowing, when we had long term instructors in the training center who lived there. It's a great theory..except PSIs aren't in the same leage as our old lifer instructors. But what evs...life is too short. There's lots of wet kitties to play with out there, gentleman.

CrowneVic

Are the instructors being replaced by PSIs 145 or 175 types, or a combination of both?

jh1180

I take exception to this sentence. Having traveled the world and on more than one occasion retained a like priced service provider, I can honestly state that, in my experience, hard sucking can’t be bought for $5.

Everything else HardLemonade said is accurate, however.

There is a marked disparity in quality between the PSIs and the guys who have actually flown the airplane. There seems to be a few decent PSIs, but most of them I encountered lacked experience in the aircraft, and also seemed to just be there for the paycheck. Ultimately, this is going to lead to pilots being trained to pass a checking event, as opposed to pilots being trained to fly the airplane.

It may take a few years, but I think this will result in a decline in the quality of ADM displayed by flight crews.

I hope this situation resolves naturally somehow, but I doubt that will happen.

Meanwhile, I guess I should catch up on those training critiques...

pitchattitude

I might be wrong, but I don’t think there are any PSIs on the 175 other than a few that are medicaled or aged out. And one of them is THE BEST and most knowledgeable instructors there is, bar none, and while he flew the line in other planes for Envoy, but has never flown the 175.

3GreenKSNA

I had a PSI on my junpseat a couple of weeks ago that was transitioning to the 175. He had zero interest in anything we were doing nor did he want to make one ounce of small talk. Could be a bad apple. Needless to say my expectations will be very low.

-Keep the dirty side down