Oh, and lets not forget that much of the rest of the world only gets a hundred or so hours in small planes before moving on to the bigger stuff.

Companies like Lufthansa, Cathay and JAL have cadet programs. Their pilots have hardly any small plane time and they seem to do just fine.

Other places like the military also take low time guys and put them strait into transport category planes too.

It is a nice stroke to the ego to think that we are accomplishing something by having the ability to land a taildragger, but in reality it means nothing to an airline career.

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