Originally Posted by three1five

I think the point I was making is getting missed because I didn’t make it well. What I’m saying is, a regulatory environment which says someone with 500 hrs of time monitoring the autothrottles in an E175 and 500 hrs of IRO time is worthy of a 737 upgrade—but a pilot with 3,000+hrs of command time in [B-2/C-130/B-52/P-8] is not worthy of said upgrade—ought to be looked at. We all know people in both camps who are going to be good captains, but the regulation ought to do a better job of ensuring overall experience.

Also, the 0200-0600 local time FSBs should go away.