Originally Posted by
HercDriver130
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!!
Interesting you mention Delta. My dad retired there after 27 years after 9/11. He would tell me it would be hard for me to get hired there even though he retired from there because it's a good old boy military club. At one time, he stated to me there was over 600 guys there from one squadron alone. At SWA we have over 400 Luke Airforce guys on the property. Delta hired because you were in the club, it had nothing to do with quality. The average military guy at SWA comes to us with about 1800 to 2000hrs total time and that's in 10 to 15 year time frame and that's after coverting their time. How is it that you only flew 4 years in the military, I thought the contact was for 7 to 10 years??