Originally Posted by
Duksrule
I challenge you to show me some data to prove this. Not so long ago you could get hired with wet ink on your commercial ticket. I don't seem to recall a spike in aircraft mishaps. In contrast the accidents that I have seen are high time guys screwing the pooch. Now I am not saying that I want two 250 hour wonders flying my wife and daughter around but I am saying that it is case by case. Where I currently work we have a huge mix of backgrounds. I have flown with 15K hour military heavy guys that I wouldn't let take my 172 on a trip around the pattern and I have flown with some low time non-military guys who impressed me. Its the pilot not the logbook!
I wouldn't want a guy with all military heavy time flying me around the pattern in a C-172 either. I'd bet you wouldn't have a problem with that 15,000 hr C-5 pilot (if there was such a thing....I think the HIGHEST hour USAF patch I've ever seen was 5,000 hrs and that was a C-5 guy) flying your family around the globe in that Galaxy right?
I just went through recurrent with a former USAF -135 pilot, airline 727 guy and has most recently been flying large cabin corporate type aircraft worldwide. There was still some stuff that he could do better in a King Air. It has nothing to do with how good of a pilot he is overall.
Thank goodness he got me through that firehose PL21 avionics stuff though!
