Originally Posted by
Papoo
I get your point, but I don't entirely agree.
During that .001% of Ops, experience may help. Equally, of greater use is knowledge, decision making, TEM, etc.
Experience may help with those things too, but it's not a precursor. If you select individuals with a tested aptitude for the important skill-set, I'd say that guy is more useful than a magenta drone with 8,000. The military also agree.
Hence, the airlines I mentioned continue to maintain as high a safety ranking and record as it is possible to get in the industry.
Perhaps saying 'experience means little' was too strong a term, but you get the general drift of my post, I'm sure.
Knowledge, decision making, and TEM are all things that are largely the byproducts of experience. "Wisdom," would be another way to say it.
The reason these programs have some success is in no small part due to the other guy in the cockpit. The concept of hiring hire ab initio CAPTAINS is a ludicrous one for one very specific reason.