Originally Posted by
A10crewdawg
For everyone who is bagging on the low time guys, what say you to the men and women flying for the majors or retired who were hired on back in the late 70's and 80's...or even prior, who had a commercial (no multi) instrument and were hired on with places like TWA? Tell me they're horrible pilots now that they are managers at a bunch of airlines. I think every person is different as to their ability to make decisions and experience can be a factor, but not always flying experience per say.
I'm sure people argued about this very thing back then, too. The industry goes through cycles. Guess what happened to all those low timers when they got to majors back then...They made BIG BUCKS! Maybe this could be a model for the future of the current industry? We can all hope!
Back on subject, you are absolutely correct, flight time is not always a good measure of somebody's skill or experience. I am sure there are plenty of low timers that can fly circles around high timers - more power to them. The thing about somebody with more time is that odds are they have been exposed to more than somebody with low time.