Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
bcrosier wasn't implying that they could handle an emergency but using the phrase "cutting corners". He was using the phrase to talk about progressing to certain stages of a flying career without the *usual* experience.
If you think that graduating from ERAU one day and sitting in ground school for a regional airline is the *norm* then you once again have shown that you really haven't studied much history of the airline industry (or even read many threads on the subject or the posts in this thread). Just because it has happened in the recent past, or back in the early 60s, doesn't make it the normal route. Until that route becomes the majority, it will be considered 'cutting corners' on gaining experience.
USMCFLYR
The "norm" is still just training at your local flight school.
But (and this is a FACT), one quarter of pilots who sit in US airline cockpits today come from Embry-Riddle. I never said that's the "norm." That's quite a few pilots; I guess a quarter of US airline pilots cut corners too...
And since when does something that isn't the majority automatically get considered "cutting corners?" (What you said:
"Until that route becomes the majority, it will be considered 'cutting corners' on gaining experience.")