Originally Posted by
BZNpilot248
I can see how the low time guys could have problems after a year if they never had a chance to get the fundamentals down before they went to an airline. Maybe they squeaked through the initial but hand flying instrument skills and flying fundamentals were never that great - say they got by with help from captains and automation for the first year and it might bite them during the probationary PC. And as said above this is a good time for the company to weed out people they don't like.
Yeah, well it doesn't help that all these RJ-Drivers are telling Probies that the "Jet wasn't made to be hand-flown," and that you "need the automation..."
Like I said - there are pepple who fly planes, and then there are Pilots.