Originally Posted by
de727ups
Just the other day a sport plane here in Spokane landed on a road when the engine quit. Guy did a great job. The guy had 140 hours and the local media was making an issue of what little experience that was to be flying an aircraft. How amazed would they be to see the backgrounds of some airline F/O's these days?
PAX are probably more worried about the 300 hr pilot landing on their car on the highway than flying with a similar pilot at the airport.
How many low time pilot articles have we seen with little to no reaction. PAX don't care. Doesn't mean we shouldn't tho...