I didn't say unqualified I said your gonna feel underqualifed. When you're at 5000 feet on a downwind doing 250 knots and they clear you for the visual you will feel overwhelmed and not know what to do. And by the way usually the autopilot comes off unless you wanna be a pansy about it. It takes a couple months to get the hang of it. I'm sure the ioe captains will appreciate previous 121 pilots better because they don't have to take the controls. Not saying I'm a super pilot, we all have to learn at some point. But I also believe the best qualified should get the job. In 07 500 hours were some of the best qualifed. Now we have people with thousands of hours on the streets while CFI's are getting hired.
I disagree. "Underqualified" and being "new" to something are completely different things. Of course a person with little to no experience in a jet is going to be a little nervous or possibly overwhelmed on their early landings, but this doesn't mean they are "underqualified." By your logic, a person who doesn't know how to cook a burger and enter orders into the computer at a fast food restaurant is "underqualified" - after all, they've never done it before, right? I am new to jets myself, and my first landing was a little nerve racking/exciting, but I never felt underqualified for being there.
The underqualified person would be the one who is unable to learn the new skills of flying a jet.
Does anybody know how many recruiters Eagle has? I just wondered if everything went through CC or if individual recruiters had any leeway in their decision making.