Originally Posted by
crewdawg
I'm in my late-30s, have been here for 7-8 years and I still don't have 6,000 hours, that would be a poor metric to use. It shouldn't be all that hard to figure out your age with all the other information provided, high school, college, jobs, etc. In fact, I'm guessing a simple algorithm could pretty much nail your age if they wanted.
On an anecdotal note, I've worked for three different airlines. In each of my indoc classes we had at least one mid-50s pilot in the class, with the class at my regional having two. Not a single one of them made it through training and onto the line. I'm not saying that older pilots can't hack it, it could very well be that all those guys just happened to be weak swimmers. It would be interesting to see if there is data on failure rates vs age vs experience.
were you military or civilian track? I would assume he was talking about civilian RJ pilots. FWIW During my time at a regional, myself and most my friends there averaged about 700 hours a year. most the military pilots I have met, especially fighter pilots, don’t fly nearly that much because their job involves much more than just flying.
on a similar note to you, at the regional level, the 2 50+ guys we had in my class (1 mil and 1 civ) seemed to struggle a bit, however the people in the same age at DL new hire (2 mil and 1 or 2 civ) seemed to do fine