Originally Posted by
BLEEDBLACKNGOLD
XJT are you claiming that the experience you have received throughout your career has not made you a better pilot? You feel as capable today as you did the first month in the right seat?
I can't even find logic in the thought process that a major airline FO (7000 TT 1000PIC turbine+) with a major captain (20000 TT) is equal to the 1000 hour regional FO fresh from flight instruction paired with a regional captain.
Mistakes do happen, but the majors have more barriers in place with experienced pilots than compared to regionals. Have you attended initial at a major? Compare that experience 1 day to the ground school at a regional... How many of those safety layers that exist with a seasoned major crew are equal to the regional crew with a brand new RJ FO who is holding on to the tail?
What I'm trying to get it is that age old saying. "it can happen to ANYBODY"
Originally Posted by
block30
Third, it is not as if low time pilots are lepers with horns growing out of their head. Education tempered with experience makes the likelihood of mistakes, particularly fatal mistakes go down.
Yes, this.