Recurrent Training 2021
Master Executive Council (MEC) + Inflight Training Committee + Air, Safety, Health and Security Committee (ASHSC)
In This Edition
- Early Success Rates Look Promising
- COVID-19 Risk Mitigations
- Written Exam Practice Questions and Answers
- Adequate “Hands-On” Time Prior to Emergency Evacuation Evaluations
- Acceptable Deviations to Emergency Evacuation Commands
- Requalification Training (RQ)
Early Success Rates Look Promising
This is the second week of Recurrent Training 2021, and early success rates for passing the various drill evaluations are looking promising in comparison to success rates for Recurrent Training 2020. We hope the trend continues.
COVID-19 Risk Mitigations
AFA Alaska’s concerns
- Mask usage and social distancing during evaluations
- Sanitization of shared emergency equipment.
Inflight Training management’s response
Inflight Training management agreed to make several changes in response and posted the updated safety and sanitization guidelines.
Click here for the ”Welcome to Recurrent Training 2021 Letter” > (AAG SSO required)
Written Exam Practice Questions and Answers
AFA Alaska’s concerns
- There is no comprehensive list of all potential written exam questions and answers provided like in past years.
- The random practice test must be taken too many times in order to successfully view all underlying questions. (If ever?)
Inflight Training management’s response
- “Learning and building confidence is our goal. With that in mind, we will be turning off the randomizer on practice exams to allow FAs to run through all available questions. We will add a note to remind FAs that questions do change regularly so they always need to refer to the practice exam on the website for most up to date questions.”
- Management reports the randomizer function will be turned off by the end of the week.
Adequate “Hands-On” Time Prior to Emergency Evacuation Evaluations
AFA Alaska’s concerns
- Adequate hands-on refamiliarization time should be provided during paid training hours prior to emergency evacuation evaluations.
- Flight Attendants should not have to attend voluntary unpaid sessions in order to be successful during their evaluations.
- There were not enough Open House sessions at each training center to accommodate the need in 2020 and several of those sessions were canceled, which only made the situation worse. More Open House sessions are needed in 2021.
Inflight Training management’s response
- Schedule reworked to maintain the same 90 minutes of refamiliarization time as in RT 2020. (Hands-on time was initially going to be reduced in RT 2021, but AFA advocated for more time.)
- Hands-on sessions prior to the start of RT 2021 are not an effective use of limited Training resources and will be eliminated in order to potentially reallocate the resources to additional Open House sessions around the system.
- Management will review the ratio of the number of Open House slots in each training location compared to base size and restructure the sessions to allow for more options (e.g., dates, AM/PM, different times of the month). Additional dates will be added in March.
Acceptable Deviations to Emergency Evacuation Commands
Password: See the emailed version of this newsletter sent to the personal email address that you have on file with AFA Alaska for the confidential password. Contact your LEC president if you need additional assistance.
Please respect the security of the document and do not share the password on an open forum.
Requalification Training (RQ)
RT 2021 is scheduled for one and a half days, but RQ 2021 (Level 1) is scheduled for two full days. There were only a few differences between RT and RQ in years past, but there are significantly more evaluations in RQ compared to RT this year. Flight Attendants should budget ample preparation time if attending RQ.
If you have any questions or concerns, contact your LEC president or the MEC Inflight Training Committee.
