Originally Posted by
ZeroTT
just for giggles, there was a time in the 60’s when the majors were hiring guys with wet commercials. Like 250 hr straight to the cockpit of a jet… course it was sitting sideways
Yep, and more than half a century ago. Even before that, the jump seat was used for training and observing. Simulator, what’s a simulator? They did not exist.
My first time in a simulator was in the late 1960s.