Originally Posted by USMCFLYR
Maybe when the GA pilot is selected and trained to the same uniform standards and not just anyone with a loan application can make it through then maybe you'll have the same results.
Since you work for the FAA in a flight check capacity, I'm sure you know "the GA pilot" IS trained and then checked to the 'same uniform standards' - the FAA Practical Test Standards - from PVT checkride right through 121 proficiency check.
If somebody wants to address the PTS to make them more stringent, then that's something tangible that can be explored.
As such, I don't think its realistic or necessary for "GA pilot" to be held to the same standards as guys who get taxpayer-funded training worth millions of dollars.
As I've said previously, despite starting my 121 career at 1100/100 I don't think its unreasonable to expect Airline Transport Pilots to have the minimum experience required to hold an Airline Transport Pilot certificate.
That said, I do think experience matters more than anything else in one's logbook, and the measure of experience doesn't begin and end in a Total Time column.