Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
Not really... allthough I am sure there are some who do have a transition problem. Fighter guys rarely operate single ship... almost always in concert with 1-3 other aircraft ...and believe me..... formation flying requires CREW resource mgt within the flight. Its not exactly the same.. but many of the same principles apply.
as for the comment above about spoon feeding mil pilots during IOE... I would bet that the spoon feeding as more to do with airline operations...than actual flying the aircraft... as I said above...there are always exceptions.....course we all arent god and walk on water like River6.
I'm the one walking on water there Herc! You're Ex military/Aviation expert is the one claiming guys like yourself walk on water with you military training! Like, I said the guys who have the problems at SWA most of time are the military guys. Their not use to flying in a civilian enviroment and most are not good stick and rudder guys. For this so called expert to say this Captain was not a very good pilot because he was civilian trained is BS! Did this guy screw up, it looks that way, does that make him any less of pilot because he came up through the civilian ranks no! And just for the record all the accidents that have happened at SWA over the past few years, the over run in Burbank, the over run in Chicago, and the going off the runway in Amarillo, Texas, all three aircraft had captains that were ex-airforce. Funny, how we have not seen any experts give testimony to that.