Originally Posted by
ctd57
I have nothing against you. I just wondered where you got your info from that we just "sit in the right seat on long XCs to build time."
Oh come on, how else do you guys go from Washington to Florida in a few days? I'm just in favor of doing many short flights with many takeoffs and landings. Now you can argue that you get flight experience all over the country but at that stage 100-300 hours you still need to be learning and doing many practice approaches and other types of flying rather than flying 2 hour flights where you just sit there and enjoy the scenery. I understand that ATP CFIs don't do as much of this but that is the basis of ATPs training for students.