Originally Posted by
Carl Spackler
Here's what you and acl65pilot will not allow yourself to understand. Many, many of the pilots at regionals were not then and are not now qualified to join a major airline. It would have been hazardous to the safety records of major airlines to have unqualified pilots bypass their hiring processes and be inserted via merger. Period. I know you guys advocate this and have given it the name of "unity", but it's wrong to bypass the hiring process of any major airlines. Wrong on many levels.
The ability to gain access to the cockpit of a jet airliner with almost no experience is something that never should have happened. It put a lot of passengers in danger. But it did give many pilots the ability to gain jet experience which was a very good thing for people like you and acl. And as such, nobody got screwed! The fact that you guys could even think this shows such a generational difference with regard to your huge entitlement mentality.
Carl
Hey Carl;
As Bar says, I do not look at it that way, and I do not. No reason to be bitter over the past. Reality is that we can not look in the rear view mirror over anything. Look forward, and fight what is in front of us today.
Also, prior to the advent of the RJ, pilots were hired from those same regionals with turboprop time only, ah hem. All the RJ did was make the transition to a major that much more seamless. It came down to procedures and asking for a "wind check"
Oh yeah and flaring lower than where an rj started it flare.
