Originally Posted by
FaceBiter
There's not 76 victims in a Seminole. If you want to go kill yourself in a GA airplane knock yourself out. Passengers expect the pilots to actually be competent. Not just "figuring things out" as they go along.
So how did you figure out the jet? They let you take a crj up for 100 hours with no pax until you "figured it out" and suddenly became safe? Every person in IOE is "figuring it out" after 30-40 hours of sims for the first 25-50 hours on the line. A lot of that "airline" stuff can't be replicated anywhere else. You "figure it out" enough to be safe in the sim. It's not like this is a single pilot operation either.
I bet pax on anyone's first IOE trip wouldn't be happy if they knew the first time pilot X was going to takeoff and land that jet was with them in the back. But it happens. Every day.