Originally Posted by johnso29

I had plenty of 500 hour puppy mill FO's when I was an RJ CA. We got along great, but many of them lacked the basic situation awareness to really operate the airplane in a 121 environment. One flew me right through the localizer on a visual approach to parallel runways in 10 SM of visibility because he didn't have a Flight Director to follow. I should have never let it happen, but I went heads down for a minute and he's 8 miles out doing 250 kias blowing right into the path of another airplane. Others couldn't even do a visual approach without an ILS to the runway, even if they had a PAPI/VASI. And don't even get me started on when we were down in Mexico!