What freightpuppy said is true. These training programs are a joke, I was just in class with a couple Canadian pilots and they knew there ****** alot more then all us Americans. These written test in the U.S.A are ridicoulous all it takes is a good three days of memorization and you can pass the ATP written and not know anything. 200 or even 500 hour FOs are ridiculous and it will someday bite the industry. We have been lucky so far I believe because of all the high time captains that have been stuck at the regionals since 9/11 but with alot of them moving on there will be a change in the experience level of the guy in the left seat and now the guy in the right seat has never been in a cloud and has 80 hours in a sim that is being taught by an instructor who may have never flown the real thing. I am no expert and am not a high time pilot around 2500 hours but common sense to me is that these pilots are highly underqualified to be flying the public around.