Who would you rather fly with...
 

Who would you guys rather fly with a 1200 hour pilot with 40 multi or a 400 hour pilot with 200 multi? Just wondering which is more important to the airlines when they are hiring.

I think every guy or gal is different...... depends on what the 1200 hours is in I suppose. And what type of flying it was.

Hell it all depends on training and the person, when I flew C-130's 99% of the co-pilots upgraded to the left seat with 800 in type and 1000 TT......they come out of UPT with 200 hours more or less.....

Personally I would prefer they all have 1000 hours or more, but that just isnt the reality we have today. Things change.

1200 hour guy any day

whichever one I get along better with....

Playing the percentages the 1200 guy cause he's likely seen more(wx,mx,etc). As to the airline part of your question, I don't think they care these days...just looking for a warm body in most cases.

The one with smallest EGO, uses their common sense when flying and try not to kill me.

If they need people they will hire any Tom, Dick and Harry.

Just about every Airline in England has the MCC Course -Multi Crew Co-operation Course - Where they take low times guys and train them to become amazing gear monkey, and it has not failed yet.

When I was at my flight school, you could not be an MEI if you did not have 500 hours of flight time because of insurance. Now, you are welcome to fly a jet with that amount of time. But HEY, Times has changed. Britney Spears now has kids!!!!!!

Seconded. Flight time is a very poor indicator of quality of airmanship, amount of ego, or knowledge...all it means is more time in an airplane. Is it quality time though? The question "do you have 1500 hours or one hour 1500 times?" is a good one when it comes to background and experience.

Does the 400 hour pilot have a CFI and at least 100 dual given? Lots of time in the IFR system? Sharp on instruments? How did they get their multi-time, instructing or splitting it?

Does the 1200hr pilot have a bunch of 152 pattern work? Do they have much time in the IFR system doing cross-countries? Are they sharp in instruments? Would they be proficient in a multi?

1200 hour guy regardless of experience had because even if it is 1200 hours of patrolling a highway or working the pattern in a 152 it is 800 more hours of oppurtunity to use decision making skills and encounter problems that others may have not seen.

Multi is not a designator of pilot skill

Agree, 100%

How could a 400 hours pilot have a lot of time in the IFR system? At 400 hours, a pilot is just being to learn the system. The only multi time they probably have is time they've bought since most places won't insure an instructor with that low of time.