USMC I completely understand your points and to some extent I agree just maybe not on the same fix. For the guys who got hired with low time and suddenly had the epiphany that "wow I don't know as much as I thought and I am not safe" I ask DID YOU QUIT or did you continue to work and learn? Now that they have seen the light they want it to be harder for everyone below them. It makes them sound like primadonnas that forgot where they came from and what it was like to grow. Now that they are in, screw the rest of the guys trying to make it. It would be like an officer saying now that I got my commision with just a BS degree, I want to fight for all that come after me to have to have a MS degree because I didn't feel I was educated enough before going to OCS. (I know over simplified but you get the point)

Also the examples you talk about in this thread go both ways. Captains correct FOs and FOs catch mistakes that the CA make. That is all part of being a team and working together. Many people talk about low time guys like they are sitting in the right seat in their booster chair just pushing buttons and licking the window. I am all about if EITHER pilot is doing something in the cockpit that is so bad that it puts the A/C or passengers at risk then steps need to be taken and have them fired. It is just that simple. But if it is just the learning curve of being a new FO well then I do feel that part of the CAs job is to mentor junior pilots. As a MC aviator did you ever mentor your JOs? Or did you say "screw you, you are a low time bad pilot and it isn't my job to teach you"? My guess is that you held training whether it was your "job" or not.

My only point is that 1500 isn't a magic number. It has been proven with statistics that mishaps involving pilot error happen more with an over 1500 hour pilot in the cockpit. While being a CFI may give you some insight and experience, sitting in the right seat not flying the A/C for 1500 hours doesn't make you a super pilot. Or how about the CFIs that are in FL or someplace that they really never see weather, fly nothing but new airplanes etc.... and how much planning/decision making is involved in taking a new airplane that is full of gas out for 1.2 in the practice area doing turns with a student? My wife gets more experience riding right seat in our cessna on a bad weather day.