Originally Posted by
Taco280AI
Here we go again... the Cessna 150 pilot cruising around on a sunny afternoon is better than the dual turbine engine, 22000 pound, military helicopter pilot who has deployed into combat, sometimes flying up "high" and sometimes at 30' AGL @ 145 KIAS, pulling a 200 foot orbit over the medevac bird in a hot LZ while hearing the gunfire below over the ear pro and noise of the helicopter, while monitoring five different radios and staying calm under pressure... yeah we suck, are the only training failures, FW pilots are gods, we should be blessed to even be in your presence.
There any fact based numbers for that THIS DECADE?
After you remove that pine cone, reread that post.
He said “different”, not “better” and RW is different from FW. Moving to airline training from a RW comes with its own challenges in addition to those that a FW gets - airline training has a high failure rate to begin with.
And yes, it is well know in airline training departments that RW pilots come with their additional set of challenges more often then not. It’s a fact of life just like a FW guy with prior jet time will do better than a FW guy with nothing but 172 time - again more often then not. There are exceptions in every scenario.