Sultan - so what's your solution for countries such as China, India, etc. where there're very few civilian trained pilots and the military simply doesn't have enough aviators who can transition to the civilian passenger/cargo airlines?

Just like we want people to 'buy American,' purchase products 'Made in USA' etc., they want to have their own pilots so they don't have to rely on foreigners for their own transportation needs.

I’m not saying I am disagreeing with some of your premises but how would you solve their problem?

Also, you said that your post "...was an indictment of the trend of minimally experienced pilots finding more and more ways into heavier iron..." so do you a problem with the military trained pilots too?

Because very often they too go from zero experience to flying very heavy iron in a relatively short time frame; I realize military training is very well designed and that people use sophisticated equipment form the very beginning however, in a way it’s a little like an ab-initio training program where pilots solo in Bonanzas and quickly transition to Airbus/Boeing simulators…

Again, the multi-crew license is not as bad as people think. Those guys/gals will have years and years of 'observing' experience AFTER their training has been completed before they can transition to the co-pilot seat; all this while they keep doing their recurrent and simulator training sessions.

Just my take on it...