Originally Posted by
FangsF15
This should actually be very concerning to Mgmt. There WILL be (multiple) NH’s who never flew 121 before the widget, who starts on a WB, camps out for 10 years and the first time they ever fly domestic is as a captain. Heck, even if they did fly a couple years as a regional FO, but is 10/15/20 years stale. Who wants to be that pilot’s sim partner? Or LCA if it gets that far? Even possible to have a WB-only career, in theory.
Totally legal, but not by particularly smart. it will happen.
Nothing new. In the 2000’s I flew with some that upgraded from the back seat of the 747 directly to the left seat of the DC-9. Some had no 121 time outside the airline and some had zero time in a window seat before upgrading.
Most times it was fine. It was only when you got into the hinterlands with no radar coverage or open control tower did it bubble up.