Originally Posted by
kimba
Very good for you.
Unfortunately for somebody else the fact that they have been flying by themselves for years was a problem. They did not pass the sim training because they were not able to coordinate a course of action with the other pilot. They did everything by themselves.
The problem may be that after you have been the Capt. of yourself you a long time, you may have a problem been the SIC of somebody else maybe younger than you who is the Capt.
Then that isn't a flying problem, it is a personality problem.
So your example was one person that you knew who had trouble making the transition and not a more general statement that single pilot ops builds habit patterns that are hard to break and could endanger training? This statement sounds pretty general to me:
...if you spend more than a year at a single pilot job, you'll get used you to fly by yourself so much that the day you want to do another job and you'll be in a cockpit with another pilot (which by the way are the most of the jobs out there) wou may not be used to crew coordination anymore and you'll have a problem during training.
I'd venture to guess that your example might well be in the minority than a majority. I'm sure there is someone who can't transition from doing everything themselves to load sharing, but my experience.
Maybe you are a fan of the MPL?