Originally Posted by SaltyDog

...Seems they are not thrown into the briarpatch, and are mentored into the job (and we are talking extraordinarily experienced F/O's who were Captains with, often, many thousands of hours of command experience.(like many here on this board) So I would consider the regional 121's thinking that they need to mentor the development of professional aircrews, especially ones F/O's taken so early in experience. Every Captain in every cockpit should be doing the same. I am all for washing out incompetence, but our profession is more like a medical doctor, and these new F/O's should be treated as 'in residence'...