Originally Posted by
USMCFLYR
WOW River6. Some guy comes on and says that military is good and you jump all over him and then you make statements like the one in bold above? Seems you should take some on your own advice.
Imagine if I started a thread out saying that most civvie pilots are not good stick and rudder guys - AFTER having gone through training that is recognized as some of the best in the world!
USMCFLYR
If it's the best in world lets do a comparison of all the Major Airline crashes in the last 15 years and bet you any amount of money that 95% of the Captains who were piloting those aircraft were military trained. So the best training in the world comes with questions? To say a pilot who is trained in the military is a better pilot to someone who comes out of a school like Purdue, or ERAU is naive on your part. Most of the F-teen drivers and heavy drivers come to the majors with 1500tt over a period of 10 to 15 years which comes up to be 100 hours a year. In peace time, it's less than that. To say they are better pilots than some guy who has been flying RJ, ATR's in and out of Boston, LGA, JFK and logs 1000hour in one year and comes to the majors with 6000 hours of airline experience is a joke!
A few recent crashes that had Captains all trained by the Uniited States military.
Captain Richard Bushmann AMR flight that crashed in LIT
Captain Edward States AMR flight that crashed in Queens
Captain Nicholas Tafuri AMR flight that crashed in Cali
All were contibuted to pilot error. Accidents happen and will continue to happen for some ex-military/aviation expert to say the Colgan Captain was not as well trained as military pilot is a crock!