Originally Posted by
CRJdriver2017
No there’s not. Europe has shown 250 hour pilots are capable of flying an A320. My post was aimed more specifically at spirits training alone. It’s sort of known to be super tough and with no jet experience you are considered behind the curve.
Correct me if I’m wrong.
Spirit training isnt tough. They added an additional sim a few years back and they will add another in a second if needed to fill seats. They didn't "need" to add more sims years back, if they "need" to, they will and not blink
As far as the lack of jet training putting people behind the curve. That I disagree with. Our prop to jet pilots are, in my opinion, some of the best pilots we have. The nice thing about not having jet time when starting here, no habits to break from prior jets.
And the BEST part is as a CA, I dont have to listen to "Well on the RJ we used to......" Ugh...Nobody cares about the CRJ.
In the end, we have pilots who have tons of RJ time here and they are weak, and we have guys with no RJ time when hired and they are fantastic; and we have everything in between.