http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=2129 Wed, 15 May 2013 22:33:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=2129&cpage=1#comment-28210 Chad Knutson Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:17:11 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/flighttraining/?p=2129#comment-28210 Well my story is different on crew environment. I came from flying 135 single pilot into a regional airline as a first officer. The first week of ground school was bad when we had a grumpy old IOE instructor who did’t like me at all. The company did’t mind that he used foul language in the class room and lost his temper real easy.
Second and third week were great. Sim training was great. The check ride was no problem and those instructors were greet. I found out at the end of training who my IOE captain was it was the guy I had first week of ground school. I was warned by other instructors to see if I could change IOE captains, but I didn’t. The first day we met he told me I would never pass IOE with him and we hadn’t even flown together yet. All he did was yell and swear at me during the preflight and security checks. I tried to leave and he pushed me into the cockpit. I was trying to do my job the best I could to just get through the trip and that was hard. In the end the company forced me to resign after that. I even went as far as reporting them to the FAA.
Now I am back flying 135 single pilot and I feel safer. I have gotten my ATP rating through my company even. I will never fly for or on an airline again. I feel that if companies have captains like that working for them they are unsafe and the unions just protect people like that.
If I can’t fly single pilot I will get into another field and get out of aviation.
My lesson learned if I get put back in that situation again tell the ground controll I have an emergency and we need to taxie back to the gate and squeak 7500.

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