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Metro State launches pilot fast-track program
Metropolitan State University of Denver will offer students interested in pursuing a pilot career a fast-track to getting hired after recently announcing it will partner with Great Lake Airlines. (www.9news.com) 更多...
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If this helps them get 2 pilots back in the cockpit, I'm all for it. Single pilot flights are a hell of a workload, especially in IFR conditions.
Better yet, they could go out of business and let another company (who treats pilots like human beings) take over.
Any organization with ties to Great Lakes might as well have "dirtbag" written all over it.
You are probably right about this rinkie-dink so-called airline
Does anyone else remember what happened in Buffalo? Anyone?
No, what did?
A pair of pilots, who rushed through flight school, and had very little on-the-job experience, got into a situation that they had never been in, and crashed a Dash-8 and killed everyone on board.
Horse $#!+. The copilot had well above ATP mins, and the captain had been flying the line for years. Don't talk about things you don't know about. Yes, the captain had a history of failed check rides, but that really has nothing to do with any specific amount of training he did or did not receive. He was just a poor airman.
Well, Great Lakes is not at the top of the list. As far as the Colgan crash at Buffalo, you are entirely correct. That just goes to show that quantity don't necessarily get you quality.
Being above mins doesn't mean anything. Does 2,000 hours in the right seat of a 172 mean your a good pilot? Not necessarily. Logging time for instruction given is an awful, albeit often the only, way to count hours towards totals. The CA had never been in ice before and was more intrigued by it than he was concerned. The FO was a product of a "puppy mill" flight school at some airport. Minimum times required before taking the exams and checkrides. That's not how you build experience, that's how you pass by going through the motions.
