Originally Posted by
Delta1067
There are exceptions but the 2500 hour pilot is going to do a much better job than the 500 hour pilot. Yes there are exceptions but when you put a 500 hour pilot in the right seat of a regional it burdens the Captain to now have to babby sit and play flight instructor for the entire trip.
Absolutely. If the 500 hr pilot has 100 right-seat King Air time, he/she may be more qualified/skilled than the 2,500 hr pilot with only single-engine piston time flying solo going low and slow. But you're correct, the vast majority of the time the pilot with more time will be the more skilled of the two. Babysitting or CFI'ing in that kind of an operation is definitely uncalled for and then we need to wonder how that FO slipped through the cracks to get to that point.