Originally Posted by
FlyJSH
You got it.
The reality is a good private pilot with an instrument rating can pass the ATP checkride. But that doesn't mean they have the experience to fly an airliner.
I constantly laugh, sometimes out loud. Some of the worst whiners about the delayed upgrade, get real quiet when it comes time to pick our way through a 3 state line of thunderstorms. Add ATC and a dispatcher who thinks fuel is from his own pocketbook makes for a fun afternoon. Experience is earned and even learned and without it, a partial pilot at best. All the "300 is as good as 3000" crowd should listen to the old guy sitting next to them, he was once young and had to learn the same lessons, probably the hard way, from some grizzly WWII or Viet Nam vet.