Hi from Rio: ex GOL after eight years, now a cabin crew instructor, here to explain what the trainers actually think

Isabel, Rio de Janeiro, eight years at GOL, three years as an instructor at an ANAC approved training organisation. I teach the initial course to the people who then apply to LATAM, GOL, Azul and increasingly the Gulf and Europe. I joined because the training threads on this forum are all from the trainee side and the trainees deserve to know what the other chair sees.

What I can offer: why people actually fail training (it is never intelligence), the three habits I can see by day two, the ANAC licence system in Brazil and why it is a real qualification, the GOL and Brazilian low cost picture, the instructor career as an exit, and the Brazilian crew's paths to Europe with the Portuguese and Italian passports.

What I want: the European ATO instructors and the airline trainers on here to compare notes, because the regulation differs and the trainees do not, and the Brazilian applicants to ask the questions they are afraid to ask in my classroom.

Portuguese, Spanish, English. Ask me about the door drill. I used to fear it and now I teach it, and that is the whole story of training in one sentence.