Originally Posted by Banshee365

I'm sure LOT's of CA's are saying the same thing! It would be nice to have new hires that know how to fly and airplane with stick and rudder (leave the yaw damper comments to yourself it's a figure of speech) skills rather than button pushing. I've had to listen to many guy's blabbing about how there last FO had 400 hr's and couldn't handle basic hand flying on a visual approach to the point of getting aural warnings.

I just saw this very same thing from a 9+ year FO while jumpseating home the other night but there are alway's going to be those type's.