Originally Posted by wags3539

All this talk about raising the mins to fly for an airline. Increased hours doesn't necessarily make better pilots, quality flight training makes better pilots. While going through training they even tell you the most dangerous time in your career is when you aquire about 800-1000 hours in the A/C and complacency starts to set in. I feel for the captains who constantly baby sit the person sitting in the right seat, but that could have absolutely nothing to do with the amount of time they have. If they got through the airline's training program and they are still a burden on the captain, then that's not showing a lack of experience on their part, that's showing a lack of judgement on the training department. That is the point of IOE, obviously no matter how much time you have, there is going to be a transition period when switching aircraft. If the IOE captain signs them off, in my mind that should be good enough, and the amount of hours they had prior to that should have nothing to do with it.