Originally Posted by
sbm12
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.
With all due respect...but you are 100% wrong.
I was employed as a pilot at a large regional airline in the US on 9/11. At the time I was a citizen of a European country that is part of NATO and pro-US, working in the US under a green card (so not from the "Axis of Evil"). After 9/11 I had to sign a release form EVERY time I went in for recurrent training. The release allowed my airline to get permission from the State Department to do the required training. Later when I became a US citizen the release form was not required because we had all gone through a 10-year FBI background check.