Originally Posted by
coryk
There have been so many people over the years that have been hired with half that time. One of my good friends went right into a EMB-120 with 251 tt and 19 multi. He was a Captain for ASA for 9 years, and now he's at SWA. It's not the time, it's the individual.
For many years I believed the same... But now I see that people such as your friend are the exception to the rule.
Believe me.. I am a big supporter of sub-1000 hour guys getting hired by airlines, only because that is what very succesful airlines around the world do such as Lufthansa, TAM, British, etc...
The difference is that the pilots at those airlines are nurtured from the start and their training is geared towards those pilots.
Here we hire guys who are still gaining experience flying in class bravo in a Cessna and throw them into a very intensive 121 jet training program which was designed for pilots with much more experience.
Some make it by simple rote memorization of procedures and profiles.. Then in the real world things fall apart.