Originally Posted by
k6mashak
This will probably cause a few negative posts on this forum, but I am open to see other peoples prospective on things. This post also only applies to CFI’s who are hired. My thought on the industry hiring low time pilots I think is a good. A lot of guys talk about the lack of experience being a primary reason for not wanting low time guys in the airlines. My thought on that is yes experience is everything, but what exactly do you mean by experience?? Icing, an emergency, or just cruising around on a VFR day. I saw a post, I am not sure if it was on this thread or not, but a guy was saying how he would like to see a 250 hour guy in icing. Most flight schools that I know of do not train students in an aircraft that is certified to fly into known icing, so there for what new be pilot has actually been around a significant amount of ice in training, or instructing. Also I am sure not all 1000 hour or 7000 hour pilots have been in an emergency situation. So what will a 1000 hours of flight instructing in a C172 do to help you out with a gear up landing in a CRJ. We are all trained the same way by the airlines regardless of hours. Wouldn’t it make more sense to have ex-airline pilots instructing, ones who have been around the icing, maybe had an emergency or two, and someone who has countless hours, instead of having a 250 hour guy trying to teach someone to fly?
Absolutely!!!
Often times when learning to fly, you find a classic case of
the blind leading the blind! An experienced Instructor is worth his weight in gold, and then some.