Originally Posted by
FangsF15
Quite a lot? Not so sure about that.
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I don’t get the angst about this issue. Any FO at DL has thousands of hours of flight time, and the vast majority have CFI’d and/or been captains before (including military). If a FO ‘forgets’ and blurts the word abort, I’m almost certainly aborting and discussing later, especially < 80 kts
But company policy is company policy.
Yup. They seem to have switched their hiring preferences after covid and suddenly started taking people who previously had "too much time". My new hire class had a bunch of regional guys with north of 10k 121 PIC.