Wow! That is a smoking gun! Not mention, wasn't Gulfstream caught putting auto a/c in their planes. Yet ALPA with all their resources in Herndon can't gather up a few of these facts to shutdown Roger "the spray tanman" Cohen and the rest of his PT Barnum circus as they "struggle" to find a solution to the "shortage".

Nobody really wants to pay for experience. The MPL proves that. I wonder how much PIC time the crew of Air France 447 got as well. From the data it doesn't seem like much. It's not just matter of learning how to operate an aircraft, it is having to rely on oneself, scare oneself, and make sole decisions which prepares you. Being a CFI helps a lot too, because you learn to communicate clearly, how NOT to micromanage, yet still stay in command, how to build cockpit rapport--in short CRM. These MPLs go straight into an AirBus having never even flown as PIC in actual. That is what the bottom feeders were doing; recruiting 250 hr pilots with inadequate experience.