Originally Posted by
yelkhettar
I mean one question. What about European pilots sitting in the right seat of 737’s and 320’s with 250 hours? Who can explain that? Those who think you need to be a CFI for 2 years and 1500 hours what are your thoughts on this? Are they better trained? Are they more intelligent that pilots here in the US?
Non-US airline pilots regularly crash (and near-crash) because of basic airmanship failures. Even European airlines.
We haven't done that here in a while, and it's too long of a streak to be just dumb luck.
Some GA (or mil) time gives you some actual flying experience, some challenges you don't get often in 121, and some PIC practice.
Pilots outside the US are often very well trained on book learning, computer programing, and auto-pilot engaging, Better than US pilots in fact, but somehow that still doesn't make up for lack of airmanship.