Thread: Spirit and ERAU contract deal
View Single Post
Old 12-03-2007, 04:20 PM
  #38  
cessnapilot
Gets Weekends Off
 
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: MD-11 F/O
Posts: 232
Default
Originally Posted by Kingjay View Post
The difference was that in the 60's "private pilots" got hired and sat as an FE for many years before Upgrading to FO.

As I said earlier in this thread you can teach a monkey to fly just about anything. Its real world experience that makes the difference.
actually, TWA and UAL hired 300 hour pilots in the early '60s that were FOs quick.
cessnapilot is offline  
Reply