yancharlie

Piedmont has a history of hiring low timers, and getting them through the course. The training is difficult, but not impossible. It takes a dedicated low experience guy to make it all the way. Experience is necessary as well as valuable, but it has been proven all over the world that you can hire a guy with zero hour and train them to fly Airbus and Boeing. At the end of the day, it all depends on who you get. Some of them are ready to take such a challenge, because of good prior training and study habits, and others just need more time outside the 121 environment before they can do it. What I have to say is, all the low timers that made it through the piedmont training are outstanding pilots. Experience or no experience, that training is tough. I know for a fact that you can bring any mainline glass cockpit drivers into our sim, and it will take them a minimum of four sessions to get caught up with that thing. Most of them forgot how to enter a hold without the FMS.