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JetBlue Shakes Up Pilot Hiring by Training Them From Scratch
JetBlue Airways Corp., breaking with historical practices at U.S. airlines, plans to recruit potential pilots with no flight experience and provide its own training under a proposal awaiting approval from federal regulators. The program would be the first of its kind in the U.S. and would be similar to those used by some European and Asian carriers. Candidates still would have to meet U.S. requirements, including 1,500 hours of flight experience, to be certified as commercial airline pilots,… (www.bloomberg.com) עוד...
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Flight Instructing is good also. There are a lot of things that really clicked for me when I had to teach others at a Part 141 Flight School.
They are going to regret this once they begin to experience all the diversity and affirmative action bs. They would be far ahead to sponsor flight training at some of the best aviation schools like Emory Riddle which would require apprenticeship in a Jet Blue environment hiring the good ones and sending the rest to (...fill in the blank...).
I am not convinced that a 1500 hr pilot necessarily is an any better pilot than a 300 hr pilot who has the right training, attitude, aptitude and desire to learn. I have flown with many, in air carrier service, and have no problem with 90% of them. The other 10% need to be weeded out, just like with the 1500 hr pilots. One problem is that companies these days are fearful of weeding out.
ALPA is opposed to it because it would strengthen the bond between employee and company instead of employee and union. Secondly, the article does appear to suggest that pilots will pay for their own training.....but how is that different than today's situation where the first 250 or so hours are on the student's dime.
Lufthansa does this in-house training as well and the advantage is that they can train each pilot until they reach a specific standard.
These pilots usually get a mpl and not a frozen atpl which means that they already know the standards of the carrier.
These pilots usually get a mpl and not a frozen atpl which means that they already know the standards of the carrier.
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