Originally Posted by
camba0a6
Great, hasnt this subject been covered enough already. I got a great idea, lets only hire pilots with 5000 hours or more, but because we cant get enough pilots with that expierience we will have to cancel 3/4 of our flights for the day. Lets see how the PAX and media will respond to that.
Yep, it's been beaten to death...but you may have missed a key point here. There's a big difference when you compare a guy with 1,000 hours to a guy with 250 hours. The 1,000 hour guy can talk on the radio, knows what the inside of a cloud looks like, probably taught someone a thing or two, knows what "flaring" means, has probably seen ice, and is not using mapquest to get to the local FBO.
Those differences start to go away when you're comparing the 5,000 hour guy to the 1,000 hour guy.
Not knocking on the low time guys, we were all there once. But just because jets are shiny and go real fast doesn't mean you should be rushing off to sit in the right seat of one.