Originally Posted by
River6
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!
1500 hours in 10 years?.... you are out of your mind. MAYBE ...MAYBE a fastmover driver who had a desk tour in that 10 years.... Heavy drivers.. C-17 guys... C-5 guys... and the 141 guys... as well as the 130 guys... I would bet over the past 20 yrs have averaged a hell of alot more than your 100 hours per year you talk about. I flew the line in hercs for 4 years and another year on wing staff and managed 2000 hours...many of my squadron mates flew 2500 hours or more during that time period.
For what its worth..YOU are the one who talk about walking on water, I believe if you read ALL my posts you will see that I have the utmost respect for civilian trained pilots and I specifically pointed out what I consider the main difference. MORE the half of my current flight time is flying civilian aircraft ... the ATR-42 in BOS, JFK, DCA, MIA etc... E170's out of ATL, ORD, DFW, MIA, DEN etc.... and most recently 4 different models of the citation.....I have known great MIL trained guys... and great CIV trained guys....and not so great guys on both sides.... I asked a mainline recruiter once why ( and this was years ago when DAL heavily favoured MIL guys ) they hired so many MIL vs CIV guys ...he response was they felt over all they got more of a known quantity overall to the type of training they had been exposed to... that was it.....its was that simple. This is way to complex a discussion to say which is better... each guy or gal stands on their own merit.
Have a great day River6!!