Originally Posted by Hacker15e

Was it not obvious that my statement about training was sarcasm?

None the less, the point of the comment was that pilots aren't born with aircraft- and sector-specific skills and knowledge. All of us only knows what we've been trained and what we've experienced in our own small sliver of the aviation world.

Many pilots -- including both 121 and military aviators -- don't have the understanding that in other sectors of aviation in which they've not participated, there are other standards/methods of flying that are not the same as what they're accustomed to. More importantly, they don't understand that those differing methods are "separate but equal" in that what is quite appropriate in one sector may not be appropriate in another. The other methods are not any better or worse, just different.

So, while here on a forum where the topic is airline flying, it is all fun to bust on a military fighter guy who doesn't know the local customs. The opposite is just as true; in my time teaching both UPT and Fighter Lead-In, it was hilarious/ridiculous to see guys coming from airline experience and not understanding that the "new" methods they were taught in military ground school were, in fact, supposed to supplant whatever techniques/procedures they'd used in the airlines. Works both ways, for better or worse. The same is true for guys coming out of ag flying, or bush flying or corporate-to-airlines, or what have you.

A smart aviator knows that there are differences, and learns/performs in accordance with the local customs, even if they differ substantially from what they're used to.