Originally Posted by
SaltyDog
Ok, at least your learning something. Experience affects maturity. I having nothing personal against ATP (and how do you know that I don't know anything about ATP?). With absolute certainty I can tell you that training everywhere is imperfect. Military, airlines, FBO's, etc. The smarter ones realize this and are forthcoming about it. They all hope you use your brain in a mature and experienced way, even ATP. I hope you do too. You stated that the airlines would train you to do it there way. If that is all they needed, we could take human pilots out of the equation. Technology is already available. "Experience but it has nothing to do with safety or performance." still has me laughing. Oh well.
I've stated several times sir that ATP has it's faults, but there's some people here who thinks it's the worst thing in Aviation.... Honestly I think I'm pretty safe..... I get in the airplane with some guys with 700 hrs, I'm going through the checklist and they tell me don't worry about it lets, go. Thats where I say "I'm sorry sir but I really need to go through this checklist. It's my time I've paid for it let me waste it the way i want to."
What I'm saying is that I'm sure there's some 20,000hr Captain who's has 200 lives at his/her hands, who thinks they now everything, and more dangerous than the 600hr counter part carrying 50 people. Again I'm not suggesting that exprience isn't a good thing to have. I'm suggesting that having 600hrs makes you dangerous and incapable of flying airplanes.
After all lets face it, Pilots aren't Pilots anymore, they're more like computer programmers.