Originally Posted by
Pontius Pilot
This is very true. When you get to training its no longer flight school. Either you know it (hopefully) or you don't. Nobody has the time to teach you or reteach you how to do a crosswind landing or how to fly an airplane. Its go time when you walk into that sim and you need to be able to handle it.
Flying in and out of the pattern is fun...even more fun in an ATR.
It is scary to talk with some of the IOE Capt's and hear how many times they have had to take the plane away from these 300 hour wonders they have been hiring the past year and a half... incorrect basic airmanship being a leading cause. So, does adding another 500 hours doing touch and goes do anything? Obviously it does... talk a few minutes and ask some of your airlines IOE guys/gals what they have been dealing with this past year as opposed to previous years.