Originally Posted by rickair7777

I would guess about half the pilot group came directly from CFI-land. The older crowd almost all had 135/121/mil experience, anybody who's been here more than 15 years.

Yes attitude goes a very long way. Easier to work with a CFI who's on the weak side but has good attitude than a cocky dude who thinks his 300 hours of 91 turbine time makes him god's gift to RJs.

But bad attitude is relatively rare. The problem today seems to be more of a too relaxed attitude, folks will follow the rules/SOP for a while until it gets too inconvenient or boring for them, then whip out the phone and start texting while taxiing at ORD, or on short final.