I've seen crusty old 10,000 hour captains handle the plane as poorly as a 300 hour wonder. It's not always about how much time you have in your books- but about how much you've learned from that time. Flying a Cub around the patch for 3000 hours doesn't mean much. But flying a high performance single or twin through busy airspace with lots of actual time may be better, provided you actually took something from the experience and learned from it.


..... eh, just rambling. I've seen some pretty crappy 3000 hour pilots. You know the ones- never flew anything more complex than a 152, never got any actual time, never planned and executed a real cross country.