Young kids straight out of high school don't belong in the cockpit?
Well...I'm not straight out of high school, I've been out a few years....am a college student and I'm a low timer....
Are you saying that I don't belong in the cockpit?
If I would do the CFI route for a few hundred hours....are you saying that my decision making skills are miraculously a lot better? Sure, because Mrs. Jones next to me helped me out in that department quite a lot.
The CFI ticket let's you build time and sure you learn a lot. But how much? How much do you learn that would be usefull flying in the airlines? Sure someone with a commercial ticket which all his 400 hours consisted of weekend buzzing shouldn't belong in the cockpit. But someone who comes from a professional flight school.....in which most of the hours are long x/c flights in some of the worst weathers....or how about 200 of those hours come from 135ops? Does that make a difference in being called "low time and in-experienced?"
So you needed 3000hours....Others needed a 0 less.
Becoming a figher pilot now versus becoming one during world war1.....
Do you think that was wrong also?
Would you rather have that young low time pilot sitting next to you or would you rather he finish college in aviation management or something and whoa! He's your boss now ;-) Now who's really getting screwed?