Originally Posted by
USMC3197
Geeze... I think she may have went over the top... I agree with everything she said other then the level of training is effected by income. That part is more gray then black and white I think.
As for the artical... The CA may have been hired with low time but he had 4,000TT at the time of accident right? So why does his hire time matter (600TT)? He had gained the experience but just didn't properly apply it.
I know everyone on here views this a little different, but in my opinion, getting hired at an airline with 600 hours means that you are lacking a certain type of experience. Yes he had 4000 hours, but almost all of it was in the very structured, controlled environment of the airlines. Those of us that flight instructed and or flew freight, charters, corporate ect, have had more chances to make bad decisions and scare ourselves, thus getting a deeper understanding of our own limitations and also how to recognize when the situation we're in may be evolving into an unsafe one.
That's not to say that very experienced pilots don't screw up all the time, but I don't think you can argue that his experience wasn't a possible factor in this particular accident.