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sr71

sr71

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Alright I am in need some advice. This past February I was hired by An Airline. After completing In Doc and Systems, I went to Cockpit Procedure Trainings. Between Systems and CPT I was never contacted by my Instructor of CPT to advise me what it was I needed to know for the first day. After our four day experience of CPT our instructor advised us that he would not send us to the Sim rather he will be recirculate us back into CPT.

After beings sent home waiting to recirculate back in to the CPT course, I was contacted by one of the assist chief pilots advising me that I could either Resign or be Terminated. So now I'm trying to apply to other airline, and they are asking reason for leaving. Should I put loss of Communication or state that I was not prepared for the airline and with my additional hours I am better prepared for this type of airline?

What do you think I should say?
 
sr71 said:
After completing In Doc and Systems, I went to Cockpit Procedure Trainings. Between Systems and CPT I was never contacted by my Instructor of CPT to advise me what it was I needed to know for the first day. After our four day experience of CPT our instructor advised us that he would not send us to the Sim rather he will be recirculate us back into CPT.
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I am rather confused here, perhaps due to lack of proper grammar.
 
I went through General Indoc, then my Systems, after that I went to Cockpit Procedures. At Cockpit Procedures there was a failure in Communication, what should I put as reason for leaving?
 
sr71 said:
Alright I am in need some advice. This past February I was hired by An Airline. After completing In Doc and Systems, I went to Cockpit Procedure Trainings. Between Systems and CPT I was never contacted by my Instructor of CPT to advise me what it was I needed to know for the first day. After our four day experience of CPT our instructor advised us that he would not send us to the Sim rather he will be recirculate us back into CPT.

After beings sent home waiting to recirculate back in to the CPT course, I was contacted by one of the assist chief pilots advising me that I could either Resign or be Terminated.
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So, you blame all of this on not having an instructor call you beforehand and tell you what you needed to know the first day? Your performance the subsequent four days in the procedure trainer was all subpar because of that one thing? Something tells me there is a lot more to it than that.

sr71 said:
So now I'm trying to apply to other airline, and they are asking reason for leaving. Should I put loss of Communication or state that I was not prepared for the airline and with my additional hours I am better prepared for this type of airline?

What do you think I should say?
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You absolutely should say that you were not prepared, and add about what you learned from that experience and why this time will be different. There's seriously no shame in accepting the blame for your failures and learning from them, and it's a sign of maturity to man up and be forthright with others (especially potential employers) about it, rather than trying to hide it or shift the blame to someone/something else.

That being said, what is "loss of Communication", and why would that have impacted your inability to move on from the CPT to the sim? Based on the way you're telling the story, unless the instructors were terrible, then I don't see how "communication" had anything to do with your failure to progress.
 
Hacker15e said:
So, you blame all of this on not having an instructor call you beforehand and tell you what you needed to know the first day? Your performance the subsequent four days in the procedure trainer was all subpar because of that one thing? Something tells me there is a lot more to it than that....

....man up and be forthright with others (especially potential employers) about it, rather than trying to hide it or shift the blame to someone/something else.
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HACKER is dead-on. Up to the end of the first day of CPT you MIGHT have had a "communication" argument. After that, you own it!

The last thing you want to do is to blame a previous instructor for the failure. Explain what the issue really was (honestly), how you've matured, learned from the experience, gained more experience flying since then, developed professionally since then, blah blah blah......... But don't blame the previous guy......

The new company has instructors too. If they hear you blaming a previous instructor for your failure they will be able to see the "writing on the wall". Nothing is your fault, nothing will be your fault in the future..........not a good start or something that you would want in your company if you were doing the hiring.
 
sr71 said:
Alright I am in need some advice. This past February I was hired by An Airline. After completing In Doc and Systems, I went to Cockpit Procedure Trainings. Between Systems and CPT I was never contacted by my Instructor of CPT to advise me what it was I needed to know for the first day. After our four day experience of CPT our instructor advised us that he would not send us to the Sim rather he will be recirculate us back into CPT.
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What did you think you needed to know for CPT? Flows, Flows, Profiles
You are the first person I have ever heard about failing CPT. How long has it been and how many more hours have you flown since then?
 
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