Originally Posted by
bspencerco
I'm surprised any airline would offer this. The financial consequences of being responsible for allowing a hijacker to get training on their simulators would be devastating I think. And for 400 pounds, how much vetting do you think they can do on applicants?
They are not operating as a flight training facility. They don't have to do background checks and they are not liable.
My understanding is that CO's sims are actually very heavily booked by CO and OAL employees and that there just isn't much downtime on them so there isn't much of an opportunity on this front.