Originally Posted by
DontLookDown
It doesn’t correlate.
Ive come to understand that doesn’t matter though. Public perception matters more than reality.
The traveling public needs to think that the person driving their airplane is very intelligent, always responsible and highly competent as a pilot. That’s why companies prefer to hire college educated folks, with clean backgrounds and no checkride failures. It eliminates potential headlines should anything ever go wrong.
Public perception is what I was thinking you were getting at. Thanks for the reply!