Originally Posted by
QRH Bingo
I get it, you are willing to sacrifice QOL now to get to mainline faster. That is your prerogative, of course, and I wish you the best.
As for your statement about "1,000 hours is 1,000 hours," there is more to it than just the time. While I do see where you're coming from with that argument, it shows your inexperience and naivety. Pumping out 1,000 hours in 1 year is different than spreading it out over 2 years. The reason is that you get to experience winter ops and thunderstorms twice, rather than just once each, before upgrade. Just be careful when you do upgrade as the phrase "you don't know what you don't know" will get real very quick.
And I completely agree with you on that, and I am fully aware that FOs will not experience things as many times as they should. It’s already happening with a lot of FOs.
It would be great if I had a choice… fly as much as I can, work as hard as I can, and upgrade when I feel ready. Well past 1,000 hours.
But it sounds like this should be preached to the people that are forcing this to happen, the big bosses. But for now, I have to be very careful, and nitpick how many hours I fly per month exactly to avoid upgrading to soon?