Originally Posted by
SLOPILOT
What is frightening to me is the thought of a non-current part 61 pilot being put into the right seat of an airliner carrying paying passengers after whatever relatively brief training that Skywest puts them through. Our modern air transportation system in a nutshell.
Guys that come back from a multi-year furlough probably aren't very current either. I doubt that they're getting any more training than SkyWest offers to then jump into a bigger airplane with lots more people, and fly them over a big ocean to a scary, mountainous, non-radar, third world country.