Originally Posted by
Max Glide
I disagree with this whole post. Honestly, teaching as a CFI does not have much in common with regional or major airline flying or the airliners. This concept of logging many hundred of hours instructing only exists here in the US. I have seen CFI who have thousands of hours of dual given time totally flunk out of airline program on the other hand I have personally attended classes with few who never instructed, had low time, and did just fine in turboprop and/or turbofan classes.
Flying freight…well, you need over 1200 hours to even be qualified to fly freight. By that time, you’d have almost 900 hours of turbine time with an airline.
And there’s nothing to be scary about 210 hours of Total Time. I can give you an example of a 250 hour pilot who was hired and trained on a B-757. Perhaps it’s time that we all get off this bandwagon of low-time vs high-time.
Nothing scary about a 210 hour Airline pilot?
I've had MANY 200-300 hour pilots nearly wreck my aircraft while I was instructing. Statistically, a pilot between 200-300 hours is the most dangerous pilot in the air. Its similar to being a teenage driver. You have just enough experience to think you have some experience. In the controlled training environment this is not a problem. However, when things go wrong, the odds are against you.