Originally Posted by
HighFlight
So let's compare oranges to oranges. Who do you think will perform better after the third OE flight? A military guy with 3,000 TT (zero 121 experience), or the C-172 CFI who has 1,000 TT (zero 121 experience)?
How is that an oranges to oranges comparison?
I'm not going to argue that military training isn't better than civilian.
However, mil guys are getting picked up with less than 2000 hours.... I've recently sat on several jumpseats at delta and southwest with 1500-1800 hour mil FOs. Meanwhile there's lots of captains with 8000+ hours that aren't getting the call.
You can't tell me that a regional pilot with 6000-7000 hours doing the same exact type of flying, into the same exact airports, trusted with the same paying customers as United, delta, etc, can't do as good of a job or *gasp* even better than these mil pilots getting picked up with 2000-3000 (and fewer) hours.