Trainees are a product of their environment. Many people will always be lazy and not give a crap, but if they are taught not to be a savage every man for themself type, they won’t be. And don’t give me this crap it’s not my job to teach culture. They see the shit around them, they simply just become a different pile.Gotta disagree with you there. 20% won’t change CPC motivation (not sure where you work but here the motivation to check devs out is high) nor will it change the quality of trainee the faa is hiring and OKC is pushing out.
Sure…You could make it 50% and the only thing it would do is create a bunch of CPCs that shouldn’t be certified and who would be an enormous detriment to the NAS.
You can’t blame CPCs when there are trainees on the control floor who call traffic for “bonanza 9 limas” or “airbus three thirty twos” or “Boeing seven thirty nines” or ask how the runways get their “names from”…all true stories.
The faa is like an engineering firm who hires people with liberal arts degrees.
Unless there’s a change in who we are hiring there will be no significant change in anyone’s success rate. There are entirely too many trainees hired simply because they applied. And they applied only because they heard it was a good job yet have never had an interest in aviation. Aviation experience 100% matters and makes a difference in who is more likely to be successful.
This comes from trainers not knowing how to professionally document how bad they are, managers who are equally as unable, they were also cpc once, and an FAA who does a piss poor job training trainers and not giving them the tools they need to hold shitty trainees accountable. But if 20 percent doesn’t give you incentive enough, especially since you’ll ultimately be working side by side with these people, your training priorities need to be realigned.
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