Originally Posted by
fatjoetoes
AGREE but having been on both sides of the coin I would much rather hire a 737 guy or regional guy for an airline job than fighter pilot. One does not correlate with the other so much. Airlines hire them because they are a known quality. But I don’t agree with that at all. Civilians make much better civilian pilots than a lot of mil guys do.
Airlines don't hire them to fly like mav and ice. They hire them because...
1) Basic flying ability is a known LCD.
and more importantly...
2) Whole person. Fighter pilots have succeeded and thrived in a competitive environment. A 2500 hour RJ FO will be more familiar with airline SOP and checklists than a fighter guy... but he might be a slacker and/or have personaliy/social/leadership defects. Hard to graduate from the mil and be a defective slacker (not impossible, but pretty hard)... true of all mil aviation but even more so fighters.