[QUOTE=Kill Bill]no, not you (cool avatar, BTW... i'm a huge hitchcock fan...)

it just irks me that these guys come out of PFT with a couple of hundred hours thinking they actually know what they're doing.

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Bill ,

The military takes only a few hundred hours before a new pilot is released into the pool. Back in the 60's it was common to hire guys with less than 400 hours. I wish I could connect accident rates to inexperience but it seems that it has little effect. The airlines are so canned, automated and dialed in that you could almost put a monkey in the seat. Sometimes it seems that too much experience can be a detriment. Perhaps you just don't like the idea of PFT? Sometimes money is the only advantage a person has. You wouldn't want to cheat them out of an opportunity would you?

SkyHigh

PS I caught a Ferrell cat in a live trap this morning and in honor of you have named it “Kill Bill”. I will take it into the pound so it can be adopted by a loving family.