Originally Posted by
PCLCREW
You must be an FO with a statement like that...
Ya not all, but most people can push buttons and turn knobs when the time is right and pass check rides.
A 250 hour pilot does not have the proper decision making skills yet. I would much rather have a 1500 hour pilot sitting next to me, then a 250 hour pilot. The reason... Experience.
The difference between an 8000 hour guy and 10,000 usually not much... The difference between a 250 hour guy and a 1,500...Huge.
I agree with this 100%. I recognized a remarkable difference in my own piloting skills from when I had a wet commercial until I had 1000 dual given. The same situational awareness gains were made after 1000 SIC in the jet. I look back on what I wasn't aware that I didn't even know at 250 and can't believe they would let people get hired right at that number.