Not everyone was just instructing for that 1000 or 1200 hours. Most of mine was 135 VFR charters along with a steady part 91 corp gig in a 210 flying single pilot IFR. Instructing counted for the least amount of my time. Not bashing instructing, I learned a lot from it. I feel lucky I was doing more than instructing.

 

Name calling . . . how pathetic. Oh yes, let's add the other airlines too . . . Mine was just a partial list, I am glad to see that you have started to fill in the blanks. And just another note . . 1000/100 doesn't make you a pro either.

Let's look at this another way . . . . How experienced do you think a 15 1/2 year old driver is with his temporary permit? How about a 17 year old driver? A 17 year old has about 500 hours of driving experience.

Would you trust a 17 year old driver behind an 18 wheeler driving cross country through all kinds of weather, road construction, traffic jams,etc. and sharing the road with you?

The country (American Public) would have a cow if they knew an inexperienced 17 year old was driving a 20 ton rig down the interstate. Yet they have no idea that is what is happening at the airlines.

Please feel free to post with your new opinions after you have several thousand hours of flying. I can guarantee that your opinion will differ much more than it does now.

 

I couldn't agree more. If 300 hour or even 600 hour pilots are so experienced, than why doesn't Southwest, FedEx , JetBlue, AirTran, Alaska, Continental, Delta, et el hire them? It's because they don't have decision making skills, and lack of decision making skills leads to incidents and accidents.

 

Well boss I didnt call you any name. You made it, so now you can think stupid stuff like using the media to drag down low time guys. How stupid!. You logic doesnt make any sense. I'm sure that an extra 2000 hours in my logbook wont make me think to spread the news to USA today. Young pilots already have it bad with the passengers saying stupid sh!t like "are you old enough to fly this little plane" now you want to add to it.. How selfish of you.

 

You seem to be scared about the USA Today thing . . . Do you think it might ruin your chances to fly a jet with low time? Nonetheless, you'll understand the big picture soon enough. (I hope.)

 

If the media starts an isssue, it won't change a thing...
if anything, it'll rather be negative on the industry as a WHOLE

300/600hr pilots DONT know it all, and they'll admit it also....
we just want to accelerate our lives other than going into armed forces...
flying right set on a 50 passenger jet isn't the worst thing an airliner can do.....the FO isn't making the decisions, the CA is...and who's that? A 2000+hr pilot....some1 with a lot more experience....what's the low timer really doing...maybe do the radios? Put the gear or flaps in? How much damage can he do?


And for ELLEN'S sake,....if the captain becomes unconscious...an accident waiting to happen...the FO WILL land the plane, and the pax WILL walk away thanking the young good looking stud GREATLY!

 

I'm not trying to bash XJT, but I hope you realize your airline is one of the biggest employers of 500 hour ATP/ERAU grads out there... and has one of the easiest and least stringent interview process in the industry (the interview at XJT was actually shorter/less rigorous than a job interview I attended for a serving job with Fleming's Prime Steakhouse...and no, I am not kidding).

I personally think they could do a much better job at screening applicants, but for some reason they choose not to.

 

NO, the day there aren't anymore pilots avialable is the day Fedex will lower their mins to 300. Supply and demand, has nothing to do with experience. How do you explain the fact that regionals used to hire at 2500 with 500 multi and now have dropped to a couple of hundred? Or what about parts of the world that hire 500 hour 737/A320 pilots?

 

I thought that the mins at Mesa were always lower than 500...I got an interview there over a year ago with 400 and I know someone else who had around 300 when he got the interview (and took the job), so how is this anything new?

 

What decision making skills in a 172 would help me fly a 50,60,70 seat passenger jet? (Just a Question!)