Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
You mean the probable cause isn't unqualified brown pilots? Shocking I say! JohnBurke is gonna be pi$$ed.
Didn't really need to bring that to the conversation. There are many European pilots in the same boat. The US (and Oz and Canada) benefit from robust military and GA infrastructures, so our pilots learn to be pilots before they learn to be button pushers.
But for some reason real airplane flight time during training is just too expensive or terrifying some other countries.