Originally Posted by
FlewNavy
This "non-current" mil pilot issue is an emotional and controversial topic. It clearly has nothing to do with ability but more so on PERCEIVED risk to the company and pilot. The perception is that there is risk of additional cost to the company to train a non-current mil pilot as well as the career risk to the mil pilot if they fail a 121 training program with a major airline. This is PERCEPTION and not necessarily reality but business is business and decisions are routinely made on perceived risk. The REALITY is that airlines and the military routinely train folks that have been out of the cockpit for years. Anyway - accept the facts of the business and move on.
I'm guessing you haven't heard Albie relate the story of why Charlie Venema, the one-time manager of pilot hiring at United, initiated the requirement for military guys to be current to be hired (of which the rest of the industry also followed suit).
It wasn't perception that drove Charlie to do it. It was actual observed performance in training at United.
Somewhere here on APC Albie posted about it, and he discusses it in the ECIC seminars.
Facts, not feelings.