Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
This is an often repeated statement when the issues of hours versus experience comes up. HOW MANY 300 hour wonders have you flown with that had excellent flying skills and HOW MANY 10,000 hr pilots have you flown with that couldn't fly their way out of the wet cardboard box?
The point is - it seems you are making examples for the GENERAL pilot population on the extremities of the piloting skills-vs-experience levels.
There might be those 1%ers on each side - but unless you are a multiple time lottery winner - we should probably ALL pay more attention to the MEAT of the bell curve.
FLYR nails it...you seem to be focusing on the outliers (low time guy whupping up on a high time pilot) not the trend, or data along the bell shaped curve.
Disclaimer;
I don't say I value experience because I think I'm uniquely gifted or talented. I value experience because I've seen it develop in students at the flight school, and also from flying with pilots who are more experienced than me. They teach me things whether intentionally or not, and I feel like such an amateur! I wish FO pay were better, but I enjoy and am grateful for the mentoring experience of flying with people who have more experience than I do!