Originally Posted by OldBiff

Did you have experience as a captain the first time you signed the book? No. Don’t bull**** me, you can have all the right seat time in the world but it all changes once it’s your ass on the line. Everybody’s first time is their first time, you can only hope that the training is good enough. Have you ever shut down an engine, had a fire, or a any emergency? Do you expect that if you’ve never had these you’d be unable to handle it or would you ball it up because it’d never happened to you before?
Experience is good but you can’t get it second hand. That’s why we train.