sim ride

PPP · Post by **PPP** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 9:52 am

hi everyone

What airplane is mainline using for the sim ride.

thanks

bcflyer · Post by **bcflyer** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 10:05 am

There is no sim ride at mainline, only at Jazz.

Cobra310 · Post by **Cobra310** » Tue Dec 05, 2006 7:24 pm

.....however there should be a sim ride/eval.

Timone123 · Post by **Timone123** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 3:19 am

Cobra310 wrote:.....however there should be a sim ride/eval.

Can't have that or the low time wonders won't make it. That will piss off daddies throughtout the airline and then morale will go down and there will be much bitching and disgruntlement.

jim_from_texas · Post by **jim_from_texas** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:01 pm

Are you suggesting that all the best seniority numbers went to AC kids??!! That surely can't be. I'm shocked! One national flag carrier like Air Canada has a thorough and complicated process of hiring their future captains. Surely on par with airlines like Singapore, Cathay, BA, Lufthansa... Honestly, AC is the only airline in the Big leagues that doesn't do a sim eval or even a tech exam. All the airlines listed above hire some really low time pilots but they have all attended their respective selection process (2% success rate for cadet applicants) and have passed top notch flight schools that those airlines put them through.

Dockjock · Post by **Dockjock** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:18 pm

It sounds great on paper, but if your cadet success rate is actually true, that is a collosal waste of company resources and time. Why-oh-why would you ever school 100 pilots and only accept 2 of them to fly the line? Contrary to some people's belief that pilots are a super-elite bunch of geniuses with the reflexes reserved only for them and gods, in fact most are quite human. 2%!? That is retarded.

Airline hiring the world over is a mystery. Some companies hire fresh graduates. Some require 10,000 hrs. Most are in the middle, as is AC. Just because Cathay pilots must memorize every enroute airport, along with runway length and orientation (supposedly), does not make them superior to anyone else. In my mind it makes them exceptionally pedantic. Often, to me anyway, the things that seem to make a company 'elite' are in fact the most pointless. Like that, and like a cadet program with a 2% success rate. Tell me, at Cathay if an aircraft were to have a fire onboard or other emergency, are the pilots going to go by memory to the nearest airport?

jim_from_texas · Post by **jim_from_texas** » Fri Dec 15, 2006 12:42 pm

Read: 2% success rate for cadet applicants... low success rate to have your training paid for by the airline with a guranteed job afterward. I don't know what the pass fail rate is during training for those same cadets. AC middle of the road? I was just comparing national flag carriers with our respective one. Take a look a at the hiring process in the states (American, United...) ofcourse if they ever hire again. AC had a more thorough selection process in the last hiring boom. More in line with other major airlines. All this talk about sims being unavailable is bullshit. I'm sure CAE at their center would be more then happy to provide AC with a sim of some sort for their selection process.