Originally Posted by
Da40Pilot
It's obvious that a first year F/O is going to have a steep learning curve, but, everyone has to start somewhere - they passed their multi engine commercial checkride and went and built a couple of dozen hours - let the airline who's paying you poverty wages take the brunt for your lack of hours and allow you to build them on property with Cappy in the left seat.
Couple of dozen hours?? ELOHEL.
The people who will take the brunt are the passengers who will get hurt. A 76 seat jet in a 121 operation is not the place for a guy to "figure things out", especially next to a green Captain. Who, at some of these outfits, is a person otherwise unhireable elsewhere and has a junk training history.