Narrative:

This was my first flight after completing the second phase training for the merger flight crew integration. It had been less than one week since completing the training for me. I arrived at the airplane early to review the procedures and the new flight manual and fom.I was amazed at both; how many items had changed and many of these were only vaguely familiar to me even though I had just completed the training. My co-pilot was also stating how different many of the new procedures were. It was also evident to us that there were many things that neither of us could recall reading about at all in the training; such as the flap/speed calls on approaches; some of the new flight profile maneuvers; and even new phraseology for advising the flight attendants to prepare for takeoff. The taxi-in and parking flows are simply perplexing. Many new acronyms are left undefined in the flight manual and fom leading to much confusion before the flight; as well as during the flight. It appeared to me that no one actually proof-read the new manuals as there were errors so obvious they couldn't be missed.our flight was late departing from the gate on this and the subsequent legs; while we tried to at least feel minimally comfortable with departing on the flight. Many of the new items we just left with a decision to ignore the new procedures; such as flying out of a windshear encounter on the autopilot. The new verbal calls on approach were very confusing; especially the flap calls and what airspeeds we were supposed to be flying.I can honestly say that I haven't felt this uncomfortable with flying an airplane; much less being the captain in charge of a flight; since my new hire days 26 years ago. The only difference then was that back then the rest of the crew were qualified in their seats and I was under the direct supervision of a check airman.

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Title: An air carrier Captain expressed her concerns regarding the quality of training intended to integrate the SOPs of two merging pilot groups into a single uniform operation.

Narrative: This was my first flight after completing the second phase training for the merger flight crew integration. It had been less than one week since completing the training for me. I arrived at the airplane early to review the procedures and the new flight manual and FOM.I was amazed at both; how many items had changed and many of these were only vaguely familiar to me even though I had just completed the training. My co-pilot was also stating how different many of the new procedures were. It was also evident to us that there were many things that neither of us could recall reading about at all in the training; such as the flap/speed calls on approaches; some of the new flight profile maneuvers; and even new phraseology for advising the flight attendants to prepare for takeoff. The taxi-in and parking flows are simply perplexing. Many new acronyms are left undefined in the flight manual and FOM leading to much confusion before the flight; as well as during the flight. It appeared to me that no one actually proof-read the new manuals as there were errors so obvious they couldn't be missed.Our flight was late departing from the gate on this and the subsequent legs; while we tried to at least feel minimally comfortable with departing on the flight. Many of the new items we just left with a decision to ignore the new procedures; such as flying out of a windshear encounter on the autopilot. The new verbal calls on approach were very confusing; especially the flap calls and what airspeeds we were supposed to be flying.I can honestly say that I haven't felt this uncomfortable with flying an airplane; much less being the Captain in charge of a flight; since my new hire days 26 years ago. The only difference then was that back then the rest of the crew were qualified in their seats and I was under the direct supervision of a Check Airman.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site as of April 2012 and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.