Originally Posted by Hacker15e

Because, after all, despite requiring the same CRM, teamwork, and leadership concepts that apply in a multi-pilot cockpit in order to lead multi-jet formations that are closely executing the same tasks, fighter guys can't be a good part of a multi-pilot crew.

Despite leading a formation and having to conduct CRM with guys who are in other cockpits (who can only see the actions of the outside of your airplane, and can only hear the sound of your voice over the radio, and thus require more efficiency and specificity in that communication in order to be effective and efficient at it) doesn't take any crew followership or leadership skills, of course.

Because fighter guys, despite having a formal CRM initial and and annual recurrent CRM training process in the military that is longer and more in-depth than the CRM powerpoint module they'll receive in initial training at Compass, there's just no way they can figure out how to be part of a crew as a follower or leader.

Because if they just had 1000 hours of SIC at a regional, rather than the piddly 500 hours of 121 SIC they need to add by FAR to the 500 hours (out of who knows how much total -- could be thousands) of military PIC time they have, they'd finally actually be qualified to be a regional captain.