Originally Posted by
A10crewdawg
Just playing devil's advocate here on the low time pilot issue.......but what were guys getting hired on at the MAJORS with back in the 70's? this was before the technology we have now. Think about that for a second...I know of some guys who flew for TWA and got on with a commercial........NO Multi.........commercial.
Right on! Indeed in the 60s majors hired pilots with little or no experience. Most European airlines still do. It's just that our 'model' in the US has been a bit different for quite some time now. Depending on what time in the past recruiting took place, some of the new hired pilots had to have many thousands of hours before even getting an interview, but it had nothing to do with how good they were. It was strictly a 'number' game to narrow down list of possible applicants. Gradually, established pilots began to snarl at those who got in with relatively low number of total and ME time. It was more like ‘I paid my dues and you didn’t’ instead of using any brain cells to see whether that argument had any merit. Unfortunately, that mentality still exists.
Ya know, I walked 10 miles to school in 120 degree heat with 10 feet of snow, uphill, both ways.