Originally Posted by
Ftrooppilot
HOGWASH-
I started flying a supersonic aircraft at 120 total hours. When I has 750 hrs total time I was an Instructor Pilot in Vietnam - muti engine crew aircraft getting our ass shot off. At 1500 hrs total time I was in command of a C-141 flying airevac patients and medical crews from the Phillipines to the US often landing in Alaskan winter weather. AT 2000 hrs I was flying photo reconniassance in a pressure suit above 70,000 ft where the difference between stall and Mach tuck is 12 kts - a high pucked factor. All of this before I turned thirty years old.
It's the quality of training and the depth of the experience not total hours that determine a competent pilot.
I agree. In the whole rest of the world there are low-time pilots sitting in passenger jets. On the right seat.
My background was in Europe and I was hired at 260 hours total time. The difference is training and screening of applicants, which is vastly more selective than it is in the US.