Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Must be a special by-the-numbers technical niche with very little judgement required where years of real on-the-job experience adds zero value, skill, or efficiency. Pharmacy? Or your union has voluntarily opted for a socialist approach (legit, if labor chose it). If no union, then your employers may be taking you for a ride... might be that the 20-year vets are getting paid intern wages instead of what they're worth?
The idea that a brand-new pilot-school grad could be the professional equivalent of an experienced airline PIC is laughable, lots of judgement required to balance safety while still actually completing the mission often enough to stay in business. Lots of things they don't (can't) teach in school. Same applies to most other professional/votech industries.
I’d love to see real stats on “actually completing the mission enough to stay in business” between a 1,000 hour RJ captain and a 10,000 hour 737 captain. Most of the low time guys I know are scared ****less to be late, while plenty of the high time guys will delay a flight for no legitimate reason. Shoot, our D:0 is competitive with mainline most of the time. No one is arguing a 0 time 121 pilot should be PIC, but at least at my airline I see very little quantifiable evidence that a 10 year captain provides more value to the company than a 1 year captain.