Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
An ATP is a measure of one's flying skills and judgement to be an Airline Captain. It is a test to determine if one has a certain level of piloting skills and decision making skills.
The candidates in question are not going to be Airline Captains however. Without a full upgrade training class none of the pilots will ever be airline captains. If you want to fluster potential ATP candidates then put them through the whole upgrade training stamp and fluster to your heart's content. That is the whole point of this thread, the pilots are getting left over sim scraps (less than an hour) for training, for the highest rating a pilot can earn. How can you hold these pilots to the same standards as pilots who have trained full time for 2 full months?