News Story on ABC
 

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Another great story from the media....

Click "Inexperience in the Cockpit"

If they only knew what our training was like, here at Eagle, your not getting anywhere near a jet/prop unless you make it through our ground school, then you get the sims. The media are a bunch of idiots!!

Spoken like a low timer.

Ya, training is tough if you don't have much experience. It doesn't stop there either, good thing you have years of learning ahead of you the right seat.

yawn.......

They never talked about deficiencies in training in this clip.

I found this piece to be better than some. At least it was, for the most part, factually correct. There was a little bit of spin, but far from the usual.

Seriously...Passing an SIC ride in a barbie jet doesnt mean you have experience. It just means you get to throw on the backpack and follow your captain around.

And do the preflight. In the winter. In Chicago.

It's sensationalism, but correct. As long as I've been in the industry new hire commuter/regional pilots have always had less experience compared to their legacy counterparts in terms of flight time.

Is this really news?

No, but they sure made it out to be.

There was no comment about poor compensation and QOL in the post-9/11 environment leading to a lack of "better qualified" people wanting airline jobs, only that there was a "pilot shortage" leading to 500 hour pilots.

There was no correlation between the experience of medical internists or residents and attending doctors to regional pilots and mainline/legacy/major pilots.

Factually correct story, but lacking in scope and perspective.

I like the old clips they use of planes taxiing-TWA was in there:cool: