Originally Posted by
TheTransporter
As the two largest pilot mills around, the odds are that is where he/she came from. Plus, most Cape Air FO's are from riddle, UND or Bridgewater. So it only makes sense you might take that personal, was not intended.
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That's not EXCLUSIVE to Pilots! Some of the most Clueless airline maintenence manager's I've seem came from ERA. It's like they came out of school with some "Bias against Unions". Could be in the Water they drank there. Converesely, some of the Best I've seen came from Southern Illinois University. They seem to want to Manage instead of Dictate. Could be the Midwest penchant for respect of a "days work". Could be just impression, but ERA guys are Process oriented and lack situational awareness. So that could also be for pilots as well. If you can get the "Top Gun" out of them and get them to Relax enough to tell you what the indications ARE, rather than what they THINK the "problem is"? (Especially on an airbus A320/A319 where Nothing is really what it seems..)
The Military trained pilots seem to be the top of the heap. And they are VERY distinctive from "College Only" pilots,who seem to have done no actual flying (and couldn't fly to cat 1 minimums without the auto-pilot,auto-throttle,flight director, autobraking,anti-skid etc,etc)
So it's NOT a matter of schools but actual time in the saddle doing REAL stick and rudder work instead of "flying a box", And? I work for the largest major so it's not the size of the airplane,It's the "size" of the Pilot!
Not all the guys "sitting the seat" are PILOTS. Some of them Never will be because all they know is Hot to "operate" an airplane. They'll Never Command.. ( like Sully!)