Originally Posted by
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Notice how major airlines care more about you having a college degree than how good of a stick you are? PTS standards is just fine. No chuck yeager skill required. Good sticks do things like crop dust, perform at air shows, kill bad guys from the air, etc. Good airline pilots know about their airplane, operations, and regulations, fly within PTS standards, and respond to emergencies and other crisis management stuff airline pilots are trained to do...and they are generally regarded as professional. I've never seen "good stick" anywhere on an airline pilot job requirement other than flying to pts standards. But I do see professionalism as a requirement, and the ability to read speak and write in the English language.
Also, no one said milehigh, or Yeager, was a crap pilot. Quit making crap up.
No, but because of your insults toward his spelling were geared toward his inability to operate an aircraft. Stick skills are no longer a requirement in the professional aviation world. But they should be. When the autopilot can't hold the localizer because of strong winds and turbulence. Maybe an emergency going on as well. I would rather have a good stick flying than your run of the mill college graduate. You might not get hired on stick skills, but everyone in the company knows if you have them or you don't. Small world.