Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Bingo. Most learning stops once you get into a glass turbojet...you may learn about ramp and metering frequencies and some cute new tricks to program the FMS but that's about it. You need to acquire some basic flying skills, aviation situational awareness, and aeronautical judgement before you get to that point.
One thousand hours of airline experience has to be better than a thousand hours of touch and goes in a Cessna 152 in regards to beneficial flight experience for an airline career.
Besides that we have proof that low time pilots are not negatively effecting safety in that most regionals are populated with a good percentage of pilots who were hired during the last boom with next to nothing in regards to experienced and they are not exactly causing a rash of accidents.
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