Originally Posted by
RJ Pilot
My family travels on my airline. So that makes it my business.Even a monkey can be trained, spoon feed to "pass" any "stinkin" course.Do a research and find out how many of these "wonders" pass their probie check ride 10month later.AT 500TT or 500TT you dont have the level of experience to operate in a 121 environment. I really hope congress will pass the 1500TT ATP mins.
How about the pilots from AA that didnt make it through training? Or the guys in my interview class with 2000TT+ and didnt pass the interview?
Attitude and train-ability determine your success in this job. Without the right attitude to accept criticism and eager to learn from instructors, CAs, peers, Chief pilot, etc you wont make it. Without the ability to adapt learn those new ways of operating the aircraft you won't make it either. How many times have we changed checklist items in the past year? How about the way we operate the packs, bleeds, APU, GPU, etc?
This subject has been seriously beaten to death, but hours in the log book are nice only if those hours were spent constructively. For a major 121 airline operation I would take a 500hr pilot with a good attitude and trainable as opposed to a grizzled 5000hr freight dog who spent the past 5 yrs flying single pilot in a caravan.