Originally Posted by
wmupilot85
Tell that to Marvin Renslow who had 3300+ hours.
Tell that to the Comair Flight 191 or Pinnacle 3701.
Or the SWA flight 1455,FedEx flight 14, etc.
The list goes on, high hours doesn't make someone a better pilot. Its all about the quality of those hours and how you got there. I know someone who is flying 121 who has NEVER been in icing and flies mostly in VMC. Does that make him a better pilot because he has a lot of hours flying an autopilot with a FMC?
And oh wow, you were a flight instructor so that makes you a better pilot? What about the pilot I know who never did primary flight instruction but rather BFR's, IPC's, and commercial certificates? He isn't prepping people for solos.
Those first few flights you mentioned were on a fast track low hour program also. The foundation they had was based on getting in and getting in quick. They wanted the fast way in and they got it. Now because of that their basic fundamental flying skills suffered and eventually played out later on in their careers which ended in tragedy.
And are you seriously comparing the SWA pilots or the the Fedex pilots to your analogy of high time pilots? They had quality and quantity. Do you serisouly believe that the pilots of the SWA flight didn't have quality and quantity? Do you really believe that the FedEX guys were low time low quality pilots? Please don't even put them in the same sentence or forum as the low hour pilots. Accidents happen. Low time or not. What bothers me is that because you have a few hundred hours in a Cessna tooling around with your buddies in the clouds that you have it all figured out. From your earlier post you aren't even through training yet and haven't even done one line flight. IF you pass training and get on the line maybe you will see what we are talking about.
and yes in the CRJ I am a better pilot than you. I could hop in that plane and fly circles around you. You could probably do the same to me in your 310. Quit trying to act like the correlate. Your 310 is not a crj. Basic flying skills transfer over. Those basic skills are learned and earned by time in an airplane.